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CONTENTS 



VOLUME 10, NUMBER 5, MAY 1994 



FEATURES 

24-Bit Graphics 
Boards . . . Revisited 

By Sheldon Leemon 20 

Since our last report on high-color, 

enhanced-display devices (Feb. '93), three 
newcomers have made llie scene, four 
more are on the way. and half a dozen 
others have been updated, 'Unit's a lot of 
action in just over a vear — so let's see 
what's causing all the sparks. 

Show Your Colors! 

By Gary Ludwick - H 

There's also been some heated activity 

recently at the output end of the color- 
graphics market — as IIP, Canon, Fargo, 
and Star have all released sophisticated 
new color printers for under S 1 000. Check 
out AH's comprehensive comparison tests 
lo see which one's best lor yon. 

ARTICLES 

Hidden AmigaDOS Gems — 

PART 3 By Denny Atliin 36 

The final installment of our three-part 
series on the newest versions of the operat- 
ing system shows you why Shell commands 
can often handle printing operations 
belter, faster, and more easily than your 

applications programs. 

The Best Things in Life 

ARE C By Dave Haynie .39 

lire master Amiga programmer begins a 
two-part series on C, the most widely used 
progr amming language. 

COLUMNS 

Editor's Drawer 

By Dennis Brisson 4 

"He said, she said, they said . . ." The 
editor notes that readers have a lot of 
different opinions about AW. 

Accent on Graphics 

By Joel Hagen 72 

You can achieve interesting, complex 
motion in your animation work by follow- 
ing some easy animbrush techniques. 

Video Suite 

By Paulo de Andrade 7 6 

Part 2 of Paulo's "Sound Quality" series 




"Colorful" is clearly tin 1 operative word forAWs 
Mat issue. Tin- past fear bos seen a full-bore 
explosion hulk in high-color ilisplat devices, and hi 
inexpensive high-i/aality color printers. So check out 
our double-barreled feature coverage of the latest 
offerings in both markets, and cash in on the color- 
graphics revolution nine.' 



shows you how to assemble the remaining 
components of an effective audio system 
for your video-production projects. 

DEPARTMENTS 

Overscan 6 

News, neu products, and network happen- 
ings all over the Amiga community. 

Help Key 81 

Technically inquisitive minds want to 
know: Does Tim gel dressed in a phone 
booth before answering the "Help Key" 
mail? Stay tuned. Metropolis. . . 

List of Advertisers 92 

Last Word 96 

Although job stress is up al the P.O., don't 
be afraid to write us if you re disgruntled. 

AW Product 

Information 94 

To contact the vendors or products 
mentioned in this issue of Amiga World, 
consult our all-in-one "Manufacturers'/ 
Distributors' Addresses" list. 



REVIEWS 

SUPERGEN SX (Digital Creations) ... 1 2 

Digital's great couiposile/S-Video genlock 
tor the A2000 is finally available for the 
rest of the Amiga family. 

WAVETOOLS {Digital Audio Designs).. 1 3 
Compact Ifi-bii sound card with lots of extras. 

ANIMWORKSHOP 2.02 (Axiom) ... 1 5 

Mole than a facelift for this superb 
upgrade of the popular animation-tools 
package. 

CNET PRO 3.05C (Perspective) 17 

Full-service UllS for -\miga sysops. 

Cocoon Precision Morphing 

(DevWare) 1 8 

1 rain morphing basics for under S 100. 

SBase4 Pro/Personal (Oxxi) 1 8 

Revised versions of die Iwo best database 
programs ever made for the Amiga. 

Video Toaster 3.1 (NewTek) 84 

The new Toaster software gets a quick, 
useful — and free — upgrade. 

Back Talk 84 

Responses lo previous .-ffl" reviews. 

GAMES 

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary 

(Interplay) 60 

Long-awaited port-over now AGA-okay. 

Simon the Sorcerer 

(Adventure Soft) 60 

Graphics adventure from the f'tvira people. 

Mortal Kombat (Virgin) and 
Brutal Sports Football 

(Milennium) O 4 

No disappointments with MR and BSF. 
Maybe next we'll have "Ledial Lutz" and 
"Brutal blades" Ibr the Nancy/Tonya fans. 

Global Domination, 
Rules of Engagement 2, 
When Two Worlds War 

(Impressiotis) , . . U 

Three impressive strategy games from an 
up-and-coming .'Ifftt'WHK game publisher! 

Short Takes 64 

Capsule reviews of new .Amiga games. 



COVER SPECIAL EFFEC1S 11V [ACK HARRIS/VISUAL LOGIC 
COVER PHOTOGRAPI f Of RE'I [\A /:.\ BY EDWARD II DICK 



AmigaWorld 3 



EDITOR'S DRAWER 

The editor takes to his soapbox to address concerns 
of this months letter writers in search of a kinder, 

gentler magazine. 



SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE 

"Faster, higher, stronger." That's the motto of the recently 

concluded Olympics, but it could also sei-ve as the guiding 
principle behind the computer industry, which is con- 
stantly striving to upgrade products with more features to 
achieve belter results. It's a commendable pursuit, which 
leads 10 more interesting, useful applications. 

But, just as not everyone is capable of competing in an 
Olympic biathlon, not every user feels comfortable on 
computing's fast track. 

The world of personal computing can be an intimi- 
dating experience for the first-time user, as several letters 
from this month's mail pouch suggest: 

One letter writer from Susanville, CA, states, "Your 
magazine does not speak to the novice Amiga user. The 
articles are over my head. Most of the ads are over my 
head. I don't even know what they are Hying to sell me." 

Another reader complains, "Article writers always seem 
to assume the reader lias a solid, basic knowledge of 
computers." 

From lime to time, AmigalVoiid has had lo refute the 
accusations that it is written only For professionals, partic- 
ularly in the graphics and video arenas, where the Amiga 
really shines. Conversely, some of the more experienced 
readers claim that AvugaWorld is often too simplistic in its 
approach. So, while some in the Amiga community — 
probably the most technically sophisticated users in the 
industry — look for more technical coverage, others seek 
a more basic treatment of computer topics. 

Maintaining the correct editorial balance is tricky. The 
magazine's focus is, and always has been, to help the 
novice, intermediate, and expert realize the promise of 
computing — that is, making their lives easier, more 
productive, and/or more enjoyable. 

.-Ill' cuts across a number of lines to meet the needs of 
all users. A person who just wauls to plav games can use 
the same equipment as someone who handles the payroll 
for a major company. Computers fit right into the life- 
styles of both the quiche-eating yuppie and the meat-and- 
potatoes practitioner. 

As Commodore prepares to launch new CD32s and 
more A1200s into the market, there's an opportunity here 
to embrace a new generation of users . . . and AW will be 
there — constantly in search of the right editorial mix. 

One returning serviceman (an Amiga I Yorld subscriber) 
writes regarding AWs editorial. "Don't change a thing. I 
like the broad coverage you provide. There is always 
something in it for everyone — diversity develops 
creativity — regardless of what we use Amigas for." 

Welcome home and welcome to Amiga-World, where the 
promise of computing still beckons to millions of people 
of varying abilities and interests. 




Dennis Brisson 
Editor-in-Chief 




Dale Strang, Publisher 

Dennis Brisson, Editor-in-Chief 
Daniel Sullivan, Executive Editor 

Barbara Gefvert, Senior Editor 

Tim Walsh, Senior Editor/Reviews 

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Peter Olafson, Games Editor 
Joel Hagen, Contributing Editor 

Howard G. Happ, Art Director 
Laura Johnson, Assistant Art Director 

Ann Dillon, Designer 
Alalia Korda. Manufacturing Manager 

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More Support for CD32 

You're sure to see some interesting 
third-party peripherals for the CD32 this 
spring, and ParaVision (RS#120) is 
helping to lead the way. 

The company's SX1 ($199.95) internal 
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Team Effort 

The SX1 was designed at MicroBotics, 
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including the CD32. Me also stales thai 
CD32 is "probably one of the best prod- 



ucts you could put on top of a 'IV to show 
the movies thai are coining out on CD." 
Robinson saicl that none of Micro- 
Botics' dozen staff members were let go 
as a result of the purchase, and he added 
that response to tfie expansion board 
has already been encouraging. The 
entire output from the first three 
planned production runs has been 
pre-sold to European distributors. 

On the Soft Side 

Be on the lookout lor growing software 
support for the CD32, as well. One such 
package, Almathera Systems' Video 
Creator (£39.95), adds graphics, anima- 
tions, and special effects to music CDs. 
Watch out, M'lV: With the Full-Motion 
Video cartridge, images and animations 
can be superimposed over existing video 
CDs. (RS# 121.) — Peter Olafson 



Prismatic Products 

SpBdonics International (RS# 138) is 
living up to its name — it's offering a whole 
"spectrum" of products to add a bit of color 
to your Amiga's animation and image- 
processing capabilities. 

With PKotoworX (S199) software and an 
XA-compatible CD-ROM drive, your Amiga's 
screen becomes a "contact sheet" of Kodak 
Photo-CD images. Simply double-click on a 
slide-like representation of the image and it 
will appear on your screen. You can apply 
some basic image-processing tools included 
with the package (such as detail-magnifying, 
cropping and scaling, color correction, and 
more) 3nd then save the images as Amiga 
IFF files. It requires Workbench 2.04 or later 
and 2MB of RAM (a hard disk and accelera- 
tor are recommended!. 

ClariSSA 2.0 (S199) lets you create and 
play animations, and, as its name might 
suggest, it generates Super Smooth Ani- 
mations (SSA] from existing ones (play 
back at 60 fields per second!). A variety of 



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Adorage's icon-driven interface. 

editing tools, a virtual-memory function to 
play farge animations, and a built-in screen 
grabber round out the package's offerings. 
It supports AGA and ARexx. 

ClariSSA Professional 3.0 (S399) offers 
even more possibilities including a "multi- 
anim play" function, which can play back 
several animations simultaneously, totally 



independent of the resolution or palette of 
each. It also implements a "high-end" SSA 
format, which claims to be 80 percent faster 
than the standard format. 

Adorage 2.0 (S199) generates 2-D spe- 
cial effects — from fade-in and fade-out to 
explosions, it features user-definable para- 
meters and an icon-driven interface, Ador- 
age supports AGA and HAMS modes. 



To the Point 

With the TruePoint CA-42 from 
MicroTouch. programs are at your 
fingertips — literally. 

The package consists of Commodore's 

1942 monitor, a touch-screen adapter, a 
controller, and the AmigaTouch driver 
software. TruePoint promises to be a 
durable, plug-and-play solution for 
information kiosks, professional train- 
ing programs, and so on. (RS# 136.) 



To locate the vendors of products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 94. 



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More In Depth 

Want to really dig in to specific areas 
of Amiga computing? Perhaps science 
and engineering, video, or games? New 
releases could make the digging easier. 

Catch up on the latest developments 
for NewTek's Video Toaster with The 
Atomic Toaster Catalog, 3rd edition 
($49.95, DevWare) by Harold Russell. It 
claims to be "the ultimate reference 
manual for the Video Toaster," promis- 
ing tips on all third-partv products for 
Toaster systems. (RS# 123.) 

Real 3D 2.0 users might gain insight 
with Avongard Products' 90-miimte 
instructional videotapes. Volume I: The 
Basics ($49.95; distributed by Realsoft) 
is a step-by-step guide to general mod- 
eling and animation techniques (includ- 
ing tutorials on Boolean operations and 
using the object hierarchy). Future tapes 
in the series will offer advice on cubic 
B-splines, particle animation, inverse 
kinematics, and more. (RS# 124.) 

Attention would-be rocket scientists: 
There's now a newsletter devoted 
expressly to you. With your annual sub- 
scription to Scientific Amigan ($39; $49 
outside the US) vou will receive infor- 
mation on the latest Amiga products and 
applications for scientists, engineers, 
and educators every month. Addition- 
ally, you can choose two complimentary 



OVERHEARD 



Prime Image and NewTek have reached 
an agreement to make the former's Pass- 
port 4000 Video-Toaster-compatible. The 
device will convert digital video signals to 
various international standards (including 
PAL, SECAM, PAL-M, PAL-N, and NTSC 
4.43) using a new "pass-through" tech- 
nology that does not degrade the signal. 
It also offers time-base correction/syn- 
chronization, and AT bus expansion slots 
for the A4000. 




\ F R S C A N 



PD software or data disks from Scientific 
Amigan's extensive library. (RS# 125.) 

Alter receiving letter upon letter from 
readers such as yourself, professional 
videographer and frequent AmigaWorld 
writer Geoffrey Williams decided to pub- 
lish a newsletter himself. The quarterly. 
Computer Artist and Videographer 
Report ($80 per year, CBP), offers can- 
did business advice and reports on the 
latest trends in the video industry. In 
addition, each subscriber will receive a 
monthly disk that oilers a more in-depth 
look at a specific graphics or video topic 
and includes relevant PD software. You 
will also receive Intro Disk, a catalog (on 
disk) of the various titles avaiable through 
CBP. HyperMedia Journal, a quarterly 
disk-based magazine offering articles, 
tutorials, rewiews, and more, is included 
with your subscription. 

What about something for gamers, 
you ask? Geoffrey Williams' History of 
Games (CBP) is an interactive hyper- 
media "book" on disk. It covers every- 
thing from traditional board games to 
logic play to video arcades. You can even 
play one of 100 freely-distributable 
games as you learn about the game's 
origin. Currently, the book is available 
on floppy disk, but a CD-ROM version 
is in the works. (RS# 126.) 




OVERHEARD 



Now's your chance to hit the "big time." 
Willow Mixed Media (a non-profit arts 
organization) is seeking original Amiga- 
generated artwork for its video program 
"Amiga Artists oil the Air" (distributed 
over local cable-access channels). You may 
submit work on disk (IFF or 'toaster for- 
mat) or on videotape (3/4-inch, Hi 8, or 
VI IS). Contact Tobe Carey, president of 
Willow Mixed Media, at PO Box 194, 
Glenford, NY, 12433, or call 914/657- 
29 14 for more information. 



Letter Perfect 

Mailing List Manager (S79.95, Merlin's 
Software /Visual Inspirations) options — 
mail merge, full sorting capabilities, and 
interlinking of external data files — are sure 
to inspire a chain (mail) reaction. The 
address database will organize your office's 
phone book for handy access to names and 
addresses, which you can output to labels 
and envelopes. And, with the help of DTP 
software, you can customize your output. 
You can even dial the phone from your 
screen! The program supports ARexx and 
requires AmigaDOS 2.0 or later. (RS# 135.) 



Feeling Blue 

Good news for users wanting to run 
with Big Blue — there are two new PC- 
emulator cards for the Amiga 2000, 
3000, and 4000. 

The Golden Gate 486SLC2 (S999) 
from GMR Productions (formerly Vor- 
tex Worldwide) claims twice the speed of 
its predecessor, the Golden Gate 3K(iSX. 
The 50 MHz board includes 2.5MB of 
RAM (with 4 SIMM sockets to expand 
up to 16MB), an IDE interface, a floppy- 
disk controller kit, and a socket lor an 
FPU. You can purchase the new Golden 



Gate along with GMR's WinStorm 
board (which oilers Super VGA acceler- 
ation, SoundBlaster/Pro Audio Spec- 
trum 16 compatible sound, a game port, 
and a SCSI CD-ROM controller) as a set 
for $1249. (RS# 132.) 

The 486SLC2 50 MHz Bridgeboard 
(S850, Elite Microcomputers) with 3MB 
of RAM evolved from the Commodore 
A2386SX Bridgeboard. You can 
upgrade with an A2386SX trade-in for 
$550 and with an EMC 486SLC trade- 
in for $250. (RS# 133.) 



16-Bit Harmony 

Your A2000, 3000, or 4000 will be singing 
in unison with the Toccata 16-bit audio dig- 
itizer board (3599.95, MacroSystemUS). 
The board offers three stereo inputs, one 
microphone input, and one stereo output. 

It can record and playback up to 48 KHz 
in 16-bit directly to your hard disk. (With the 
ADPCM compression feature you can digi- 
tize at 32 KHz directly to a floppy disk, as 
well.) Using Toccata with MacroSystem's 
VLab video digitizer, you can digitize both 



sound and visuals for a video sequence. 

Also included with the Toccata is SEKD's 
Samplitude editing software, which lets you 
exchange data between samples while 
viewing up to 10 samples simultaneously. 
It supports most sound files, including A1FF, 
MAUD, 8SVX, and more. 

The Toccata is compatible with most CD 
players, DAT recorders, video recorders, 
and laserdisc players. It requires Amiga- 
DOS 2.0 or later. (RS #134.) 



Testing 1-2-3 

Yon won't need any "bubble-sheet" 
testing forms or No. 2 pencils for Mega- 
Test 2.0 ($29.95, DevWare). With this 
software, you can create your own tests to 
measure your child's competencies right 
off the screen. Sound, graphics, or text 
files can be integrated into the test design 
to customize response feedback. After 
each question, a score is displayed to 
measure and reward progress. Sample 
tests are included. (RS# 137.) 



8 Ma\ 1994 



OVERSCAN 



Good, Better, and Best 

A glance at this month's updates may sug- 
gest that good things (and good updates) 
really do come to those who wait. But, as 
another tried-and-true saying goes, "there's 
no time like the present" to take advantage 
of some special introductory offers. 

A custom version (PAL only) of Great 
Valley Product's IV24 video graphics board is 
available for the A4000. It claims to be twice 
as fast as previous versions when installed in 
an Amiga 4000 (performance will remain the 
same when used with an A3000 or 2000). 
Bundled with the board is ImageFX 1 .5, which 
offers framegrabbing, video processing, paint- 
ing, and rendering to tape. (RS# 127.) 

Things keep getting better all the time at 
Black Belt Systems (RS# 128); check out 
the latest versions of Imagemaster R/t and 
ApAssist. Among other enhancements, the 
Imagemaster R/t 1.5 ($99.95) image- 
processing software offers some new area- 
selection tools, spline-based sequence 
controls, tablet-pressure functions, and 



ARexx commands, and sports a new 
morphing interface. The upgrade is $25 
($30 outside the US). 

Imagine that you could "link" text files to 
each other so that you could click on a word 
in one document and call up its definition 
(including a picture file) in another — but with- 
out a stitch of programming! That's just what 
a program like ApAssist (899.95} can do for 
you. Designed to replace AmigaGuide, it 
claims to outperform Commodore's hyper- 
text solution yet occupy significantly less 
memory. New features include additional 
font tools, an enhanced user interface, and 
more authoring commands. 

Next time your family screams, "Field trip!" 
take them to the planetarium — on your desk- 
top. Distant Suns 5.0 ($69.95) from Virtual 
Reality Labs lets you view the night sky as it 
was during historical times (and in future 
times, tool). Added features include AGA sup- 
port, an icon-driven tool box of the most-used 
functions, sample stars from the Hubble 



Guide Star Catalog, new ARexx commands, 
and much more. It requires AmigaDOS 2.04 
or later, 2MB RAM (1MB chip RAM), and a 
hard drive. You can upgrade from previous 
versions for $39.95. (RS# 129.) 

Slow and steady may win the race, but 
who's got the time? For on-the-fly multi- 
media presentations, the latest release 
(#127) of Activa's MediaPoint (distributed 
by Creative Computers) claims speedier 
Page and Script Editor functions, as well as 
some user-interface tweaks. The update is 
free to registered owners, (RS# 130.) 

And who needs speedy performance 
more than programmers? Devpac 3 ($109.95, 
Oregon Research), an assembler/debugger 
package, promises to be at least 40 percent 
faster lhan its predecessor. You can even jug- 
gle your tasks within the new multi-window 
editor— call up any other program to change 
fonts, make backups, and the like. It is com- 
patible with any 680x0 processor and 
supports math coprocessors. (RS# 131.) ■ 




Trick utilities, multifaceted 

applications, and wondrous 
games aren't the only great 
Amiga resources found <>it Bite. 
Less-glamorous ycl still-beloved 
upgrades and hug fixes are wor- 
thy of some attention, too, Better 
known as "patches," these liies 
are provided by both developers 
and well-intentioned souls. 

A high-profile presence on the 
nets is a cost-cllcrtive method lor 
manufacturers tin each both new 
and current customers. Users. 
too, benefit from a process of 
timely upgrades. And. knowing 
such heebies are available on line 
is all the motivation new users 
need to gel onto the nets. 

11 you're doing some com- 
parative shopping, cheek out die 
download totals of each prod- 
uct's most recent upgrade (and 
the frequency of its updates) 
before buying. For example, if 
you're choosing between a big- 
name paint program whose 
update gets hundreds of down- 
loads, and a more basic and less- 
expensive package that doesn't, 
then the extra money might be 
worth it if you are concerned 
about long-term support. 



ON-LINE 

SCAN 



By Tim Walsh 



Upgrades Galore 

Instead of listing all of the 
upgrades and patches you can 
find on line, I limited this 
month's "scan" lo a substantial 
list of recent (within the last 12 
months) additions thai you can 
add to your collection. 

Hie leader of the patch pack 
is Utilities Unlimited's Mac- 
emulator, Kmplatil, with almost 
20 different versions of the soli- 
ware appealing on (iKnii: alone. 
Since a new version of the soft- 
ware is released every few weeks, 

I dare say it's a necessity that all 
Eniplant users have a modem 
and a GEnie account 

Users ol Oxxi's Sllase Profes- 
sional, can find two upgrades on 
CompuServe. SBI3EG.LZH in 
the Amiga Vendor forum will 
bring your Sliase4 Pro 1.3c up lo 
1.% while SBP13B.LZH does 
the same lbrSBase4 Pro l.3b, 

Users of New Horizons' 
ProWrite should look on Compu- 
Serve for the file PWP331.LZH, 
which upgrades version 3,3 of the 
popular word processor to 3.3.1. 

II you've already upgraded 
ProWrite to thai level, von will 
need PWP3S2.LZH on Compu- 



Serve, or GEnic file #19929, 

PRO\VRliE_PATCH2.32,LZH 
to upgrade to 3.3.2. Another 
New Horizons' product, Quar- 
terback, has updates on the nets 
that bring it from 5.02 to 5.03 
and from 5.03 to 5.04. 

Nearly everyone who uses 
EA's DeluxePaint 4.5 AGA has 
stumbled on a few bugs over the 
past year or so since its release. 
You won't lind a patch lor this 
program on CompuServe, but 
you will on BIX and GEnic. Nig- 
gling problems are addressed 
and corrected with this patch, 
bin just be sure to have your 
Dl'ainl 4.5 program disks and 
registration card ready before 
launching into this upgrade. 

1 lei fner Communications 

oilers a fair share of upgrades 
lor its Pegger program via the 
networks, too. Pegger 1, 2. 1. HA 
on BIX and Clinic has an inter- 
esting history. It began in the 
fall of '93 as the first major 
upgrade to the original Pegger. 
A second on-line upgrade 
brought the program up to ver- 
sion 1.3 and beefed-up support 
for Toaster I'ratnesiores. A third 
patch program was then 



released to fix a problem in the 
1 .3 patch. A patch to lix a patch, 
though rare, is not unheard ol in 
these circles. 

If you're interested in C pro- 
gramming on the Amiga, you're 
probably familiar with SAS's 
C/C++ 6.50 (see "Reviews," 
April '94, p. (53), Mosi networks 
oiler a substantial (350K) 
upgrade that corrects sonic 
shortcomings and brings the 
package up lo version 13.51 . 

Two laic arrivals to the list of 
patch programs include Patch- 
Mat hU20, a small utility designed 
for older programs that allows 
them to take advantage of 32-bit 
memory for mathematical oper- 
ations. On GEnie you'll also find 
SPAINT.LHA, which brings 
GVP's EGS-Spectra-Paini (the 

paint program that accompanies 
its EGS-Spectrum board) from 
1.09 to 1.2. 

BIX 

800/695-4882 

617/354-4137 

CompuServe 

614/457-0802 

800/848-8199 

Delphi 

800/695-4005 

GEnie 

800/638-9636 

Portal 

408/973-9111 D 



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A T I O N 



The Reviews are in... 



"The program is so fast 
and flexible that it makes 
its Amiga predecessors 
feel like the old Doodle! 
program on the 
Commodore 64. Nothing 
out there can match its 
feature set, and it's the 
one paint program I've 
used that's so last that it 
never gets in the way of 
your creativity." 
Amiga Computing, 
October 1993 (UK) 



"For many years, DPaint 
ruled the roost when it 
came to supplying 
incredible graphics power 
at an affordable price, but 
no longer. Brilliance has 
assumed centre stage and 
is now the Amiga 's number 
one art package." 
CU Amiga. 
January 1994 (UK) 



"Brilliance is now — 
lea ving DPaint trailing in its 
wake — the best art 
package available for the 
Amiga. It's very hard to 
express why I'm so taken 
by Brilliance, there's just a 
feeling of 'rightness' about 
the way that it works. " . 
C U Amiga, 
October 1993 (UK) 



"After using Brilliance for 
just a couple of days, I'm 
hooked. It is the only 
package to be released for 
the Amiga which can rival 
DeluxePaint for animation 
capabilities, and it is a 
class act. " 
Amiga Down Under 
Nov/Dec1993 
(New Zealand) 



"Excellent! Brilliance is 
loaded with useful drawing 
and animation features, 
but it's not just the sheer 
number of tools on offer' 
that impresses. Two other 
big points arise. First, the 
program is very easy to 
use, thanks to its intuitive, 
flexible and well thought- 
out panel system. The 
second major factor is 
Brilliance's speed. Even in 
HAMS mode, everything 

in.- l/zl.-T^l i> 1 ) r . I, fl ■ i. ..- 



quickly. 

Amiga Format, 
October 1993 (UK) 



"It took a while, but Deluxe 
Paint IV has finally met its 
match. If you're looking for 
the best AGA paint 
program on the Amiga, 
look no further than 
Bhlliance. " 
Amazing Computing, 
November 1993 (USA) 



RILLIANCE 



Professional Paint & Animation 

- DIGITAL 



ANNOUNCING 
VERSION 2.0 

Version 2.0 of Brilliance has been 
led with productivty in mind, 
al new features enhance 
Iready powerful program. 
r es like Flip Frames that 
the ani mator to flip th rough 
gs. Rub Thru that make 
isiting easier. Load and 
tweenpaths enabling much 
r and repeatable brush 
;. Faster and more accurate 
ling. True View option for 
ification. And much, much 



Brilliance! 
ie best just got better! 



"Brilliance is user friendly, 
doing an excellent job with 
nearly every function and 
option that it oilers... " 

AmigaWorld, 
December 1993 (USA) 



"It is solid as a rock. Never 
have I known a first version 
of any program stand up 
like this or be so perfectly 
polished." 

Amiga Shopper, 
December 1993 (UK) 



...Brilliance 
kicked Tut's 
Butt! w^ 




COMPARE! Deluxe Paint IV Vs. Brilliance 



Overall Speed 


Slow 


Fast 


Picture Size Limited By: 






Chip RAM 


Yes 


No 


Total RAM 


N/A 


Yes 


Number of Brushes 




29 


Number of Anim Brushes 


2 


9 


Number of Screens 


2 


Lots* 


Levels of Undo 


1 


Lots* 


Levels of Redo 


1 


Lots* 


Load/Save Paths 


Yes 


Yes 


Flip Frames 


No 


Yes 


Realtime Preview Mode 


No 


Yes 


Full Screen HAM Gradient Fill 


Slow 


Fast 


Max # of Cotors Gradient Fill 


16 


30,000 


True 24 Bit Editing 


No 


Yes 


Load DCTV Pics as HAM 


No 


Yes 


Max Animation Speed 


30fps 


99fps 


Ground-up Design for AGA 


No 


Yes 


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and S- Video 

genlock. 



SuperGen SX 

Digital Creations, $795 
All Amigas. 
1.3/2.0/3.0 compatible. 
Not copy protected. 
Accelerator compatible. 



Installation: Easy. 
Minimum system: 2MB. 
Recommended system: 4MB, AGA 
Amiga, S-Video components. 



In 1 990. Digital Creations updated its excellent 
SuperGen video genlock to answer the call for 
S-VHS and Hi8 compatibility. The result, the 
2000S, was designed for the Amiga 2000's 
video slot, leaving Amigas that lacked a video slot 
(A500s, AGOOs, and A 1200s) out in the cold. Now, 
however, Digital Creations oilers a solution for all 
Amigas with its new SuperGen SX. 

Quality Construction 

The new SuperGen SX is a self-contained, steel- 
cased unit, with power supplied through the 
Amiga's RGB port using a cabled DB-23 male con- 
nector. A female DB-23 connector on the rear of the 
SX provides a pass-through for an RGB monitor. 
Other connectors include S-Vicleo Input, S-Video 
Output. Composite Input, Composite Output, and 
Key Output. The unit also has a DIP switch for 
custom hardware configurations and a telco 
connector for an optional remote-control device. 

Desktop control-panel buttons and controls are 
labeled Dissolve Fader Background, Dissolve 
Fader Graphics, Notch Filter, Interpretive 
Dissolve, Genlock Disable, and S-Vicleo/Composite 
Video Toggle, with each button featuring an LED 
function indicator. Additional LEDs indicate 
Power/Genlock and Computer Control states. The 
buttons have a solid feel to them, and the fader 
bars glide smoothly. 

I evaluated the SX in an S-VHS edit suite, using 
a waveform monitor and vectorscope for the final 
analysis. As software, I used Broadcast Titler for the 
A2000 system and MONTAGE 24 with the A4000. 

Waveforming and Vectorscoping 

After color bars were ran through the SX, the vec- 
torscope display revealed that, both color saturation 



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and chroma phase were precise. The waveform tests 
showed a luminance stairway step of equal size, and 
the lop of the step was centered on the 100-IRE 
line. Sync tests showed a straight line at -40 IRE. 
coupled with a crisp and clean burst. The results 
were identical for both the A2000 and A4000. 

For the A2000 test I launched Broadcast Titler 
and loaded in a CG page. I fed some prerecorded 
S-VHS videotape footage into the SX's S-VHS video 
input, with the text of the CG page superimposed 
over the incoming signal. The textual graphic 
overlay appeared clean, with a minimum of chroma 
crawl, twitter, or other NTSC artifacts. I performed 
an edit with the video signal and graphic overlay 
combined, and the resulting playback showed a 
clean and stable recording of both elements. Using 
the fader bars to bring the graphics in and out was 
a seamless operation. The SX also introduced no 
distortion into the source video, remaining 
completely transparent to it. 

AGA Editing 

One of my main concerns was how well the SX 
transcoded the RGB output of the A4000 AGA 
graphics to S-VHS. I loaded a graphic created with 
Brilliance and MONTAGE 24 and adjusted the SX 
faders for graphics only. Amazingly, die S-VHS 
output compared favorably with the Amiga's RGB 
display, although it was not as sharp. I recorded the 
S-VHS output graphic to videotape, and the play- 
back results were stable and clean. 

I also prepared a text page with the MONTAGE 
24 color-font options, employing a page of fonts 
that used the gradient-fill feature — set from yellow 
to the maximum red. I also made sure the NTSC 
Filler in MONTAGE was toggled off. This time I 
superimposed the textual page over the same pre- 
recorded S-VHS videotape as in the First test, and 
the result was a clean and stable image except for 
some dot and chroma crawl around the red edges 
of the fonts. The 3.58-MHz Notch Filter made the 



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clot and chroma crawl disappear and 
produced only a slight blur on the edge 
of the Fonts. 

Actually, this lest was sort of a dirty 
trick to pull on the SX. Alter turning on 
the MONTAGE 24 NTSC filter, the 
image was nearly perfect, and when I 
recorded the same signal to tape and 
played it back, it was broadcast quality. 
The last step in this test was to make 
a dub of the edited footage. The results 
were excellent; even the normally un- 
stable reds looked just fine on the 
monitor. 

The Natural 

SuperGen SX's compatibility with Amiga 
AGA computers makes it a natural lor 
transcoding these machines to SATIS, 
thus opening the door to a cost-effective 
way of creating information channels for 
cable television. The mix of textual info 
and AGA graphics is a definite plus, so 
Amiga users interested in squeaky clean 
S-YIIS output can employ the SX in a 
variety of applications. 

From the helpful documentation to the 
superb signal quality, the SuperGen SX 
delivers with flying colors. Although it 
does not quite match the performance of 
the 2000S, ii comes mighty close. For the 
price and versatility, it just can't he heal. 
—Joel D. Tessler 




Half-length, 

16-bit sound 

card and 

software. 



Wavetools 

Digital Audio Designs, $450 
A2000, A3000, A4000, or Zorro 

H-compatible expansion 

chassis. 
2.0/3.0 compatible. 
Hard-drive installable. 
Not copy protected. 



The ideal Amiga sound card must offer a minimum 
of 16-bit stereo digitizing and recording, plus 
playback capabilities. It should also have editing and 
mixing provisions for basic recording and the 
potential lor future expansion, perhaps via a plug-in 



Accelerator compatible. 

Installation: Easy. 

Minimum system: 2MB, hard drive. 

Recommended system: 68030 or better microprocessor, 

hard drive with 500K/second or faster transfer rate, 

4MB, stereo amplifier, speakers. 

card. Digital Audio Designs' new Wavetools litllills all 
these requirements for a very reasonable $450. 

The half-length, I 6-bit sound card plugs into any 
vacant PC slot and connects using four RCA jacks 
on the rear. Another 50-pin, rear-mounted con- *- 



Broadcast-quality 
images with text 
overlays are as 
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nector is wisely labeled '"Not a SCSI 
connector," Software installation merely 
requires dragging the program icons 
from the accompanying floppy disk to 
your drawer of choice on the hard drive. 

Music Maker 

With Wavetools, yon perform audio 
recording and playback to and from the 
hard drive. Although a data-transfer rate 
of less than 200K per second should be 
adequate, I'd recommend a faster hard 
drive, 'lite package supports eight sam- 



pling rates, including 48, 44.1, 32, 29.4, 
24, 22.05, 19.2, and 17.64K per second. 
The first two rates correspond to those 
used for digital audio tape and CD 
recordings. Because all of Wavetools' 
recording and playback involves the hard 
drive, the maximum length of a recording 
depends on the sampling rale and your 
drive's capacity. At 48 kilosamples per 
second, one minute's worth of 16-bit 
stereo requires an 1 1.5MB sound file! 

During recording, Wavetools' software- 
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of 22.5 db, whereas during playback the 
adjustment spans 46.5 db. Built-in 
filtering eliminates aliasing distortion. 
Audio-editing junctions include cut, copy, 
paste, and mix. The mixing function, 
which combines a second sample with the 
current sample, provides die- left and right 
channels with six separate gain controls 
having a +/— 32 db range for both input 
files as well as I he output file. These adjust- 
ments let von control the balance of the 
mix. The mixing limclion also includes 
an undo hi iffer thai requires an additional 
disk file with a size proportional to the 
duration of the mix. 

Wavetools' interface uses a series of win- 
dows that open on the Workbench. 'Hie 
heart of the control center is a small panel 
with accompanying pull-down menus. 
There are zoom controls, start -arid-stop 
playback, and gain for playback volume. 

Recorded samples are displayed in 
resizable windows, and it's easy locut and 
paste between them. You need two open 
sample windows for mixing. A recording 
window, opened from the main control 
panel, provides software gain control of 
the input level, sample rale selection. 
progress indicator, and oscillographs to 
monitor both input channels. 

Wavetools comes with 75-page 
manual, complete with installation and 
set-up procedures, tutorial, and refer- 
ence sections. The tutorial does a good 
job of getting newcomers to the world ol 
lb-bit sound up and running. 

Future Plans 

Special effects in Wavetools are limited to 
a volume change of a marked range, with 
separate level controls for the left and 
right channels. Acini ding in Digital 
Audio Designs, the standard Amiga hard- 
ware is incapable of real-time special 
effects on lfi-bit stereo samples tit full- 
fidelity sampling rates. To ensure such 
effects, the manufacturer plans to release 
iis R I"X real-time extension board (S:S29) 
for Wavetools later this year. 
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is a fast, slick, 16-bit sound card and soft- 
ware. All the audio samples I generated 
were clean and free from noise and dis- 
tortion. If you're in the market for a true 
16-bil stereo sampling, editing, and 
mixing package that promises future 
RTX expandability, don'i overlook 
Wavetools. 

— Morton Kevelson 



AN I M Workshop 
Version 2.02 

Axiom Software, S1 59.95 
All Amlgas. 
2.0/3.0 compatible. 
Hard-drive installable. 
Not copy protected. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Minimum system: 2MB. 
Recommended system: 4MB, 2MB chip 
RAM, AGA Amiga, hard disk. 



ARexx-compatible animation tools. 



Version 2.02 of ANIMWorkshop, a 
program used to create, edit, and 



enhance Amiga ANIM-formal anima- 
tions, represents a major step forward 
from the fust release I reviewed (Aug. 
'•:;, p. US). I be tools arc more flexible, 
the interface more usable, and the fea- 
tures far more contemporary. The ease 
with which you can manipulate your files 
makes this an indispensable tool for 
animators. 

Quality Rebuild 

ANIMWorkshop now fully supports 
AX1M-5. -7 and -8 formats, complete with 
XOR encoding and multimedia support. 
Thirty-two-bit Amigas like the 1200 and 
-1000 can lake advantage of the playback 
speeds offered by ANIM-7 and -8 for- 
mats, which support AGA as well as 
DCTV and HAM-E color resolutions. 
Editing functions let you modify existing 
animation files by inserting, appending, 
or deleting frames or complete anima- 
tions. Control over global or individual 
frame rales lets you insert sound liles to 
be played at specific frame numbers. 

The program is a front-end for file 
handling, and it calls either All Depart- 
ment Professional (ASDG), or Image l-'X 
(GVP) for image-processing tasks. 



Naturally, you must buy these programs 
separately, and they may involve other 
hardware and software requirements 
than those listed for ANIMWorkshop. 

The new high-resolution interface 
screen sports attractive 3-D buttons and 
2.0 requesters. The screen is divided into 
six areas, with the entire right side 
reserved for file-list handling. This list 
lets you add individual frames or com- 
plete animations, which are then 
processed into a new animation. Buttons 
below the file list provide such functions 
as sorting, deleting, and adding more 
files. ANIMWorkshop's file requesters 
support asterisks as wild cards and let 
you easily add an entire group of simi- 
larly named files to your file list. You 
may also select files or ranges thereof for 
processing, and you can save lists of liles 
for repeated processing — very useful for 
experimenting with animation creations. 

And On Your Left... 

1 be left side of the interface screen has 
five smaller sections, all related to the 
animation or to processing tools. After 
you load an existing animation, the pro- 
gram displays information about size, » 



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to play with cable connections. 

/CJUii - Convert the 2-composite inputs into a single Y/C input, 
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JOlm - NTSC/PAL/SECAM Signal Standards Conversion to NTSC/PAL for 
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allows seamless integration of all TBC Plus features into an cxisiting 
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J. his is simply the most powerful and flexible video 
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format, resolution, and so on. In playing 
the animation, you can overlay a control 
panel that has VCR-type controls for 
pause, rewind, frame advance, and other 
functions. Using either this panel or key- 
board commands, you can adjust global 
frame-rate timing as well as tag frames 
within the animation. By tagging frames, 
you identify them for timing changes, 
adding sound files, or splitting anima- 
tions, as well as marking edit points for 
adding or deleting specific frames. When 
vou're adding sound files to your multi- 



media animations, ANIMWorkshop lets 
you manage volume, channel, and back- 
ground or foreground priority. Another 
nice addition lets you insert textual 
information into the animation file. 

One major screen section here is the 
tools area, where you select the type of 
processing needed to create or alter your 
files or animation. Briefly, you can add 
or remove loop frames: grab, delete, 
insert, offset, replace, scale. Hi]), or 
combine frames; split or convert anima- 
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ANIMWorkshop 2.02 sports a snazzy 
new hi-res interface with 3-D buttons. 

custom processing provided by ADPro. 
ImageFX, or other ARexx-supported 
programs. Then you can easily select 
groups of files or existing animations 
and use one of the many special image- 
processing effects available. There arc 
more than 60 ADPro ARexx scripts 
provided as processing examples. 
Finally, two sections in the interface are 
for loading either ADPro or ImageFX 
directly from ANIMWorkshop, and for 
setting conversion options. 

Several features I found useful include 
the ability to wait For frames of an 
animation to be created rather than read 
them from a list — a real time-saver. And 
thanks to a combination ol creating, 
compressing, and deleting animation 
frames, 3-D or morpb programs work 
smoother. Von can also use ANIMWork- 
shop as an animation-lonnat converter. 
for example, you could load an Opt-5 
ANIM and then save it as an Opt-8. 

Read On 

ANIMWorkshop is not without its flaws. 
There's the occasional system crash or 
inability to load a freshly generated 
animation. In addition, ii you use 
ImageFX 1.5, you need to obtain a ver- 
sion of it dated later than July 1993. I'd 
also like, instead oTbeing referred to the 
manual, to sec drop-down lists of lile 
loaders and options when I'm accessing 
one of the image processors. 

The support for current ANIM for- 
mats and multimedia files was a neces- 
sary addition, and including complete 
and easily implemented support for 
ADPro, ImageFX, and ARexx are 
bonuses that make this program a 
worthy tool for creative animators. 1 also 
appreciate the inclusion of a distrib- 
utable animation player and a utility for 
converting older ANIM fifes into Opt-5 
formal. Axiom lias made great strides 
with ibis revision. 

— Steven Blake 



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CNet Pro 3.05c 

Perspective Software, $229.95 
All Amigas. 
2.0/3.0 compatible. 
Hard-drive installable. 
Not copy protected. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Minimum system: 2MB RAM, hard 

drive, modem. 
Recommended system: Large-capacity 

hard drive. 9600-baud or faster 

modem. 



Bulletin-board system software. 



While do electronic bulletin-board 
(BBS) package is particularly easy 
to use, CNet Pro 3.05c — significantly 
enhanced from earlier versions — pro- 
vides a wealth of features and options 
that can make life easier for an Amiga 
BBS svsop. 

Call Waiting 

Whereas previous set-up procedures 
required using the Cl.I, CNet Pro 3.0 has 
a standard installation program, and a 



new graphical user interface now makes 
BBS setup much easier. The program 
supports all the usual BBS functions — file 
transfers, e-mail, message bases, on-line 
games and Doors, to name but a few. 
Built-in support for Pidonei and Usenet 
messages is also present, although access 
to Usenet requires a copy of Matt Dillon's 
UUCP software (available in the public 
domain and front Perspective Software's 
BBS). There are plenty of options avail- 
able, so you can easily customize the 
system to your liking. 

One unique feature is that you can 
cheek incoming calls using Caller ID, as 
long as you have a modem and phone 
lines that support ii. By keeping track of 
the source of incoming calls, Caller ID 
enables you to accept calls only from pre- 
viously validated phone numbers. 

To the dismay of users, but to the 
delight of those running a "pay" BBS, 
you can assign a user fee to virtually 
every accessible option in CNet Pro. It's 
also possible to arrange that specific 
functions — such as uploads — give users 
credit against their charges. These 
charges and credits can also accommo- 
date rate variations according to the 




The CNet Pro 3.05c control panel. 

time of the call or the access group of 
the user. 

Housekeeping Duties 

The BBS's maintenance features 
include activity logs for calls, uploads, 
and downloads. Activity monitors and 
graphs also let you check on BBS usage 
with a variety of parameters, and there 
are a number of auto-maintenance 
commands that can delete old mes- 
sages, files, and even inactive users after 
a given length of time. The BBS also i 



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supports sysop-timed events thai 
change the setup of the program at a 
particular time. For example, you can 
use this function to let new users call 
into the system only at certain times, or 
to permit calls only at certain speeds 
during selected hours. You can 
schedule such events to occur at any 
desired intervals from once a minute to 
once a year. This extremely powerful 
feature makes setting up different 
access levels during "peak" and "oil- 
peak" hours much easier. 

An excellent manual supports the 
program. Comprehensive, detailed and 
well-organized, it includes an index and 
a glossary of the terms used throughout 
the documentation. And if you're 
updating from a previous version, the 
manual presents all the necessary instruc- 
tions on bringing your particular version 
up to date. Perspective Software also has 
a support BBS for more informal ion, as 
well as to download enhancements and 
revisions to the software. 

Overall, Perspective Software has 
done an excellent job of upgrading CNel 
Pro. It would be my first choice for set- 
ting up a BBS on the Amiga. 

— Dave Thomas 



Cocoon Precision 
morphing 

DevWare, S99.95 
All Amigas. 
2.0/3.0 compatible. 
Hard-drive installable. 
Not copy protected. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Minimum system: 2MB. 
Recommended system; 4MB, AGA 
Amiga, accelerator, hard disk. 



Entry-level morphlng program. 



If you're looking for an easy-to-use 
morphing program for your Amiga, 
don't overlook DevWare's new r Cocoon 
Precision Morphing. with which even a 
novice animator can quickly achieve 
impressive results. Unlike 3-D modeling 
programs, which interpolate the shapes 
of two objects to achieve morphing, 
Cocoon utilizes 2-D warping. Instead of 
simply dissolving from one image to 
another, Cocoon "warps" transitional 
images to make one image appear to 
transform into another. 

Points and Lines 

Once installed and running. Cocoon 
presents a slick, although rather uncon- 
ventional interface, with most work 




Cocoon makes morphing fast and easy, 

accomplished on one screen. Creating a 
inorph is fairly simple: You first load in a 
source image file, which is rendered to 
the left side of the screen. Then you load 
the destination image thai lite source file 
is to become. By selecting points and out- 
lining corresponding features on both the 
source and destination screens, you 
instruct Cocoon on how it should mot pit 
one image into the other. You isolate the 
features to be morphcd with basic editing 
tools that place points and lines. A mag- 
nification option is also available, though 
I found it somewhat kludgy and sorely in 
need of an undo function. 

Cocoon reads 24-bit (including Toast - 
erPaint and Light Wave), standard IFF, 
AGA, and MAM images, but saves finished 
frames only into 24-bit, HAM, HAMS, or 
lo-ievel grayscale. There appears to be no 
direct support for DCTV, Opalvision, or 
the popular Retina 24-bii board. 

Morphs In Motion 

The metamorphosis occurs over whatever 
number of frames you request; naturally, 
the more frames, the smoother the trans- 
formation. While Cocoon is quite adept al 
morphing single images, it also supports 
motion morphing, the warping of one 
animation into another. Cocoon also has 
a key-frame option that makes it relatively 
simple to create interesting animation 
fiames in a relatively short time. Other 
interesting features include cross- 
dissolving, matte and transparent color 
compositing, and a provision for loading 
static backgrounds for animations. 

Cocoon is not without irksome trails. 
Foremost is the lack of built-in anima- 
tion provisions, so you will have to 
supply a program to cobble together 
rendered frames into an animation. 
Also, Cocoon is picky with the various 
IFF file formats. The program often told 
me that a graphics file I was attempting 
to load was not an IFF file, even though 
it loaded just fine as an IFF into other 
programs. .Another drawback is that 



source and designation images must 
share the same resolution. You can't, for 
example, warp a 320x400 HAM image 
with a 640x400 IFF file. In a similar vein, 
don't expect to morph high-resolution 
or 24-bit images with a stock Amiga. In 
fact, you'll need a hefty 8 to 12MB of 
memory and 2MB of chip RAM for large 
projects. Even when working with low- 
resolution or HAM images, you'll want at 
least 4MB and will have to rely on 
Cocoon's disk-cache schemes to utilize 
all the features this program has to offer. 
for the money, I consider Cocoon a 
good introductory program lor someone 
itching to learn the fundamentals of 
morphing. A little effort and some 
patience will achieve surprisingly good 
results. Advanced and expert animators, 
however, may find Cocoon's features too 
limited for professional applications. 

—John Ryan 



SBase4 
Professional 1.3G 

Oxxi, S299.95 
All Amigas. 
2.0/3.0 compatible. 
Hard-drive installable. 
Not copy protected. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Minimum system: 2MB. 
Recommended system: 4MB, accelerator, 
modem, hard disk. 



Programmable relational database for 
business and large-scale applications. 



SBase4 Personal 
1.3G 

Oxx/,$1 49.95 
All Amigas. 
1.3/2.0/3.0 compatible. 
Hard-drive installable. 
Not copy protected. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Minimum system: S12K. 
Recommended system: 2MB, accelerator, 
modem, hard disk. 



Relational database for small 

inventories and home and small 

organizations. 



The most important program for 
many users of hard drives and other 
mass-storage devices is a database. On 
the Amiga, the clear choice for years has 
been the highly versatile Superbasc 
family. Distributed and supported by 
Oxxi, Superbase has endured numerous 



IS May 1994 



R E V I E W S 



revisions and now goes by the title 
SBase4, with both Personal and Profes- 
sional versions. 

Familiar (Inter)Faces 

Both SBase4 Personal and Professional 
arrive as compressed files on a single 
floppy, and Commodore's Installer pro- 
gram does the installation gig. The main 
manual, shared by both programs, is 
bulging with more than 300 pages of 
lengthy tutorials and examples, with Pro 
getting a separate Database Manage- 
ment Language manual. Although the 
manuals are clearly marked, Personal 
users mighl find it disconcerting to see 
features not applicable to their program. 
Both versions of SBase4 retain Super- 
base's powerful and intuitive VCR-lype 
screen controls. Creating a new file is 
simple. Just enter a filename, click a few 
screen buttons, define the number of 
fields and their contents, and you're oil". 
Once the data is entered or imported, 
you can use the VCR-like controls to 
advance one "frame" (i.e., record) at a 
time, or to scan through your data 
quickly or slowly, forward or backward, 
with buttons for pausing and stopping. 




External images complement SBase files. 

In addition, you can search for data by 
index, or through the filter, which allows 
you to construct complex search criteria 
in seconds. For example, a search for all 
of the widgets inventoried in August and 
sold by January could be constructed 
with a few mouse clicks. 

Both databases are of a relational, 
rather than flat, design. Simply put, this 
means that data fields within a file can 
refer to fields within another, separate 
file. SBase4 Pro is a large (660K) pro- 



gram, with storage capabilities limited 
only by your RAM and hard-disk space. 
The capabilities are seemingly scaled for 
government agencies — storage space 
permitting, you could have a file with 
one trillion records and 999 separate 
indexes. Its lesser sibling, SBase4 Per- 
sonal, allows "only" 16 million records 
per file. Right. 

Another big SB selling point has been 
the ability to handle external files, 
whether text files, scanned or drawn 
graphic images, sampled sounds, or 
even animations (Pro only). Arexx sup- 
port in Pro makes transferring external 
files a snap. An employee or small-town 
police ID file could contain photos, sig- 
natures, and voice samples if desired. 
Parts inventories could be enhanced with 
drawings or scanned images of items. 

Forming Lines 

No matter how easy the data manip- 
ulation is, data entry is even more 
important If the data is entered incor- 
rectly due to confusing or poorly 
designed entry screens, your database 
suffers. SBase4, both Pro and Personal, 
Continued on p. 82. 



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AmigaWorld 19 




M116818 



BY SHELDON LEEMON 



High-powered developments have 

overtaken the field of high-color, 

enhanced display devices since AW 

last paid a visit. We'll mark your 

scorecard and help you learn the 

newcomers, the updates, 

and the pretenders waiting 

in the wings. 






WHAT A DIFFERENCE a year makes! 
When AW last examined Amiga graphics 
boards, at the beginning of I 993 (see 
"Devices & Desires," Feb. '93, p. 30), we 
Pound them to be fairly expensive (most 
over $1000) and limited both in features 
and in software support. In just a little more than a year, 
however, several developers have managed to overcome 
almost all of the initial difficulties. What we have is a whole 
new generation of 24-bit graphics cards that are not only 
more alfordable, but. also work with a wide range of current 
applications sol'twase, 

Si mnil ilirrredWJjjjbngstothc IBM PC market. As2 I- 
bil color cards ItavWbecome more popular, IBM board 
manufacturers have^esigned inexpensive VGA chips that 
contain almost all of*the circuitry needed for a complete dis- 
play system. I'siug^ne of these VGA chips, all that an 
Amiga hoard designer would have to do is add a lew RAM 
chips and a little interface circuitry to produce an "instant" 
Amiga display card. The widespread acceptance of Work- 
bench 2. 1 and 3.0 has also helped. These updates to the 
Amiga system software make it much easier to add screen 
modes that are both larger than the original 640x400 
modes and offer 256 or more colors. 



Improved Performance Factors 

YET, MOST OF the credit for the new generation oftx lards 
must go to the ingenuity and persistence of Amiga board 
developers and software designers, whose hard work has 
yielded a number of significant improvements in the cur- 
rent generation of display cards. 

The major locus ol our present survey will be on three new 
boards that have appeared since our last roundup: Retina 
(MacroSysteinl S), Picasso II (Expert Seivices). and EGS 
28/24 Sped rum (GVP). In the sidebar "Update Report . . . 
and Coining Attractions." we'll also give you a rundown of 
recent updates ;,. some of the displav boards covered last 




ImigitWoriil 21 



GRAPHICS 



n o \ k D s 



time: ACS's Harlequin Plus, GVP's IV24-4000, 
NewTek's Video Toaster, MicroPace's Visiona, and 
GVP's EGS-1 10/24. Plus, we offer a preview of Four 
promising new devices due out later this year: Retina Z3 
(MacroSystemL'S), Talon (DKB). Merlin (Spectronics), 
and Piccolo (Creative Computers). 

But before we examine the boards individually, let's 
take a look at some of the overall enhancements they 
offer in more detail. 

More Modes 

Many first-generation display 
boards offered only a 
couple of dif- 
ferent 




Many 
hardware 
developers 
have written 
special drivers 
that allow Real 
3D (which 
Grant Neisner 
used to create 
this image) 
output files 
directly to 
their boards 
in 24-bit color. 



dis- 
play sizes 
and color modes. 
Today's boards allow you 
\ in choose as many (or as few) 

\\^~~" colors as you want, from 2 to 256 just 
like the AGA machines; in addition, they offer 
special high-color modes with 65.536 or 16.7 million 
colors. They also provide a variety of screen sizes, from 
320x200 to' 1600x1 200. Most boards even allow you lo 
create custom displays, expanding the screen size to the 
limits of the display capabilities of your particular mon- 
itor (see below). 

Monitor Compatibility 

The current display cards work with a wide range of 
monitors, from the lowly Commodore 1084 all the way 
to 30-inch Super-VGA monsters. For the best results, 
you'll need to get a VGA or SuperVGA monitor. But 
regardless of the monitor you choose, you'll find that 
the software that comes with these display cards will 
allow you to get the maximum benefit from that mon- 
itor. The software is either optimized for five or six 
different classes of monitors or is tailored to specific 
models and types — sometimes a dozen or more. 

In addition, manv of these boards come with cus- 
tomization software that allows you to create new dis- 
play modes to suit your monitor. For example, my old 
Mitsubishi Diamond Scan monitor doesn't have a high 
enough horizontal scan rate to support a 1024x768 



noninterlaced display, but with some tweaking, I found 
that it could manage 928x696. I also found it handy 
to create screen modes for particular applications. In 
deskiop publishing, for example, the pages are longer 
I ban they arc wide, so 608x800 may be a more prac- 
tical mode to use than 800x600. And since video 
pictures usually measure about 768x482. it's nice to be 
able lo run your 24-bit paint program in a screen (hat 
is about the same size. Another useful feature of these 
customization programs is that many allow you to 
adjust the size and position of the display. This helps 
to reduce the big black borders that so many Amiga 
owners find objectionable. 

Monitor Switching 

One of the biggest problems with the first generation 
of boards is thai you needed two monitors to run them: 
one connected to the normal .Amiga video ouipui and 
a second connected directly to the board. Even if you 
had a monitor that could synchronize to the proper 
range of horizontal scan rates (15.75 KHz for the 
Amiga port, 31.5 KHz or higher for the display card), 
and was capable of working on both pons, the only way 
to connect it to bolh ports was via an external switch 
box used to manually switch between displays. 

Many of the current display cards, however, include 
an automatic monitor switch. These board provide a 
cable that connects the Amiga's 23-pin video port 
directly lo an input on the display card. That way. 
the card can direct either the native Amiga display 
or the enhanced display from the board to the 
monitor, switching between the two under soft- 
ware control. When you change screens (by 
opening a new application, or using [he Left 
Amiga-M key combination), sophisticated system 
software determines whether the new front screen is an 
Amiga mode or an enhanced mode, and switches the 
display output accordingly. 

Monitor switching works well ifyou are using a mon- 
itor, such as the Commodore 1942, that handles both 
Amiga and enhanced modes. If you have a higher- 
resolution monitor, however, you will still need a 
second Amiga display (such as a 1084) ifyou want lo 
use programs that can't adjust to new modes. These 
days, self-booting games are about the only kind of 
software dial can'l be adapied lo new displays, so ifyou 
are willing lo forego game compatibility, vim can get 
along fine with only an enhanced monitor. 

Zorro III Support 

While most of the first-generation boards were 
designed for lite 16-bit Zorro II slois found on the 
Amiga 2000. some of the newer hoards are designed 
for the 32-bit Zorro III slots found on the Amiga 3000 
and 4000, This can help speed up data transfers (such 
as loading and saving pictures) significantly. One 
board, the EGS 28/24 Spectrum from GVP, even 
adapts automatically, using the 16-bit transfers when 
installed in an A2000, and 32-bit transfers when it is 
plugged into an A3000 or 4000. 

Variable Memory 

Most of the new boards come with more than one 
memory configuration, which allows you to trade oil 
between a tow-cost version with more limited display 
modes, and a more expensive version with higher color 



22 Max 199-1 



G R A 1' II I C S 



and pixel resolutions. Some allow you to upgrade the 
board by adding your own memory chips. 

Software Support 

One of the biggest problems with the first generation 
of 24-bit boards was that they didn't work with much 
of the existing applications software. Although several 
manufacturers tried to get software vendors to come 
out with special versions that supported their boards, 
very little of this special software ever made it to 
market, "litis severely limited the usefulness of these 
boards; you could paint pictures with their special 
paint software, or display pictures with their special 
display software, but that was about it. 

The latest models are free ol most such restrictions. 
They are able to run a wide range of existing applica- 
tions on colorful, high-resolution screens. About the 
only programs they don't support are self-booting 
games and other high-performance graphics software 
that writes directly to the Amiga display hardware. For 
example, video-tilling software, such paint programs as 
DeluxePaint (Electronic Arts) and Brilliance (Digital 
Creations), and other applications that try to move 
things around in real lime do not hold up well with 
these boards. (Of the new models, Picasso II seems to 
support DPaint most fully.) As far as 3-D software goes, 
most programs tend to work tine with the boards, seeing 
that these are definitely not real-time applications! 

One way in which these boards provide compati- 
bility with existing software is through a technique 
known as Workbench emulation. Almost all of today's 
boards provide special system software that allows you 
to open the Workbench in any of their expanded 
screen sizes. Workbench emulation guarantees thai 
you can run an)' Workbench program, or any applica- 
tion that can open a screen on the Workbench, in just 
about any mode you wish. That takes care of most 
word processors, desktop-publishing packages, 
database programs, and spreadsheets. 

Let's say, however, that your productivity programs 
don't open on the Workbench, or that you'd rather 
open them on a custom screen ofyour choosing. Most 
boards allow you to do just that, emploving the same 
methods AGA machines use to get old programs run- 
ning in new modes. This strategy is often referred to 
in the advertising as "retarget l able graphics," because 
it intercepts commands sent to the native Amiga 
display system, diverting them to the graphics board 
instead. First, the board's system software registers the 
enhanced-screen-mode information in the Amiga's 
display database (like the monitor drivers in the 
DEVS: Monitors drawer do). This means newer appli- 
cations programs that allow you to select a screen mode 
using the standard requester (like the one in the Pref- 
erences ScreenMode program) can take advantage of 
whatever new modes these boards offer. 

Second, most boards include software that functions 
like the "Mode Promotion" option in the Preferences 
[Control program. Whenever an application tries to 
open a screen of a particular mode, the promotion pro- 
gram steps in and changes it to another mode. That way, 
for example, you can get a desktop-publishing program 
to open a screen on a 102-1x768 display, or a 1024X76K 
scrolling screen on an 800x600 display. Mode promo- 
tion doesn't work with all applications, particularly older 
programs that insist on a given screen size, but recent 



1} (» A 




business 
software works 
vet")' well on these larger 
custom screens. 

We have also begun to see some 
applications that support the 2 1-bit boards 
directly. Because this area is changing so rapidly, 
though, we cannot cover it in definitive detail. Direct 
support for applications is achieved in one of two ways: 
Either the software developers create specialized ver- 
sions of their programs to take advantage of the boards. 
or they make an interface available that the hardware 
manufacturers can access via drivers. TV Paint Profes- 
sional by Tecsoft is a prime example of the former case; 
there are versions of the program for most of the cur- 
rent crop of boards (in fact, most boards ship with a ver- 
sion of TV Paint — Pro or Junior — included). Emplant 
(Utilities Unlimited) and A-Max (ReadySoft), the Mac- 
intosh emulators, include direct support for some of 
these boards, too, as does Terra Nova's Magic Lantern 
animation utility. I've heard that the next version of 
DPaint will work directly with almost all of the boards, 
and that Brilliance, too, may be Customized for the hard- 
ware at some point. 

Most boards provide drivers forASDG's Art Depart- 
ment Professional and GVP's ImageFX image proces- 
sors, and for Real 3D (Realsoli International). 
(Spcctronics, for instance, sells individual drivers for 
S25 each that interface Real 3D, DCTV, and other 
packages with the Merlin board.) In addition, many 
hoards include both applications software (such as 
paint and display programs) and utility programs that 
directly support their special displays. 

Of course, software compatibility is still not perfect. 
Since these Ixjards usually have only a single hardware 
sprite for the cursor, software that uses several Amiga 
sprites (games, mainly) won't work on them. Also, some 
Amiga operating-system features that depend on the dis- 
play hardware, such as screen dragging and scrolling. 
may not work in exactly the same way on these boards. 
.And most boards are limited to some degree by the Amiga 
system software (only the Retina, Ear example, allows 
more than 256 colors on the Workbench). These restric- 
tions aside, however, you should be able to make full use 
of these boards vvidi most ofyour favorite software. 



3 New-Generation Graphics Boards 



SINCE OUR LAST survey of cnhanced-display 
devices, three brand-new boards have appeared, and *■ 



TV Paint, 
which Paul 
Nicolai used 
to create 
this work, 
comes in 
versions 
tailored for 
several 
boards. 



AmigaWorld 23 



GRAF 



I C S 



HOARDS 



each has had a significant impact on 
the 24-bit graphics scene. In ad- 
dition io the descriptions 
below, sec the 
feature- 




Imagine, 
like many 
programs, 
can run its 
interface on 
the new 
graphics 
boards. While 
you cannot 
save 24-bit 
Imagine files 
(such as this 
one by Phil 
Wolstenholme) 
directly to the 
board, you you 
can view them 
in full color 
using display 
software. 



utors 



i nmp.ii isiin 

chart opposite. (To 

contact developers of products 

covered in the. main article, charts, or 

debar, consult the "ManufaciureTs'/Distrib- 

Addresses" list on p. 94.) 



Retina 

Ala croS\stem US 

$399 (1MB), $449 (2MB) 

The Retina was the lirst low-cost, full-featured 24-bil 
Amiga graphics card lo appear in the IS. It offers 
extensive software compatibility, and it provides spe- 
cial support for the A2000 and 3000 that allows those 
older machines lo run 2 :">(>-colorAGA productivity soft- 
ware. The board also comes with a good assortment of 
custom software, including a paint program (XI Faint), 
a picture viewer, and a number of utility programs. 
The Retina is also one of the i'ew boards io include a 
program for creating and displaying high-color 
animations. Software for MacroSvstem's VLab video- 
capture board directly supports the display of both still 
pictures and animated sequences on the Retina- You can 
also purchase a 2MB version of the Retina thai in- 
cludes TV Paint Pro software for $749 (4MB for $899). 

The Retina comes with a long' list of pre-programmed 
display modes, plus a program that lets you create 
custom-display modes. It can scan at standard video 
rates, and MacroSyslem oilers an external composite 
encoder that allows you to convert Retina output lo a 
television-style video signal. The board holds it]) to four 
megabytes of display RAM (using user-installable ZIP 
chips), which means bigger screens with more colors 
(including 24-bit screen resolutions exceeding 102 lx7l>!S 
pixels). This capability is particularly important for 
graphic artisis involved in prim work, where the bitmaps 
can exceed 2000x3000 pixels. 

The Retina does have a few minor drawbacks. Unlike 
the very latest boards, it has no automatic monitor 
switch, so if you plan lo use software that is specific to 
the Amiga display (like self-booting games), you'll either 
need a second monitor or a manual monitor switch. 
MacroSystem savs it plans io offer an external aim imal ic 
monitor switch in the near future. Also, because it 



endeavors to offer maximum compatibility with older 
.Amiga programs, the Retina's emulation software is 
loaded with options (hat make il a bit more complex lo 
use. For example, changing the resolution of Work- 
bench takes two or three steps instead of one as with the 
newest boards. The system software doesn't support the 
Workbench display database, which makes il harder for 
cooperative programs lo use its new display modes 
direct!) . Finally, iis AGA emulation runs fairlv slowly on 
the original board. A3000 owners in particular should 
look to the new Retina /..''> board for improved perfor- 
mance (see the "Coming Attractions" sidebar). Despite 
these limitations, however. Retina works as advertised, 
and is still one of your least expensive choices. 

Editor's Note: At press time ice received word that new 

j software will be available for all Retina boards l>\ the lime 

you read this. II is reported to run five times faster than 

the older software — even on the early boards — and, 

unlike the current software, il will not use your system's 

chip RAM. Current owners ran upgrade for S25. 

Picasso II 

Expert Services 

$549 (1MB), S614(2MB) 

The Picasso II uses a standard VGA chip (the same 
Cirrus Logic chip used by GVP's EC IS 2S/24 Spectrum, 
in fact), but interfaces ii a little differently. Picasso 
maps its display memory right into the space normally 
used for expansion RAM (instead of the I/O space used 
by other boards). This approach helps speed up the 
manipulation of graphics memory, particularly on an 
Amiga 200(1. On the other hand, it also limits the 
amount of fast RAM you can add to an unacceleraied 
A2000 to six megabytes, instead of the usual eight. 

The Picasso II system software is simple to install 
using the standard Installer program, and it is just as 
easy to remove it, via the included de-install script (a 
courtesy mosl developers omit). Once you've installed 
the software, you'll notice that i he ScreenMode Pref- 
erences editor lists several new Picasso modes you can 
use for your Workbench screen. And when you run an 
applications program like a word processor, the 
ChangeScreen program will automatically ask if you 
want it switched lo one of lite new Picasso modes. You'll 
use your computer just as you always have, but with a 
larger choice of screen modes. 

It's fortunate that the Picasso is so easy to use, 
because the documentation is translated somewhai 
roughly from ihe original German. In fact, IntuiSpeed, 
a lesl program that comes with the package, si ill has 
buttons labeled ill German. There is some documen- 
tation On disk in AmigaGuidc lormat. however, which 
is complete and easy to understand. 

The Picasso II board comes pre-programmed for a 
lot of screen modes, and though it does include a 
program to let you create your own custom modes, it 
doesn't give you quite as much control over size and 
position of these screens as similar programs on the 
Retina and Spectrum cards do. The Picasso includes 
an automatic monitor switch, so you can use one mon- 
itor to display both Picasso-mode and normal Amiga- 
mode screens (if you have a monitor that supports 
both), and switches between them quite naturally. 

The Picasso comes with somewhat less software i ban 
the other boards — a display program, TV Paint Jr., a 



21 Mm !<">! 



GRAPHICS 



BOARDS 



screen grabber, and a screen blanker. It also includes 
a shareware version of MainActor, an animation cre- 
alion-and-display utility, although the save feature is 
available only on the registered version (which costs 
$50 more). 

EGS 28/24 Spectrum 

GVP 

$499 (1MB), $599 (2MB) 

Want a board that works in your A2000 but works even 
faster, automatically, if you switch to an Amiga 4000? 
GVP's EGS 28/24 Spectrum, which adjusts to either 
the 1 6-bit bus of the Amiga 2000, or the 32-bit bus of 
the A3000 and A4000, will do just that. Like the 
Picasso, the Spectrum board also provides automatic 



monitor switching for a true one-monitor solution. 

The Spectrum features the EGS compatibility soft- 
ware libraries from Viona Development. EGS provides 
not only Workbench emulation and display-database 
compatibility, bin also its own operating environment, 
with such convenience features as tear-off menus and 
its own Preferences settings (for screen mode, colors, 
fonts, input, mouse pointer, and soon). EGS provides 
very sophisticated support for multiple boards and 
monitors, allowing you to move your pointer off the 
edge of one monitor and onto another. 

There's a lot of EGS software that comes with 
Spectrum, including a display program, screen 
grabber, clock, text reader, a game, screen blankets, 
and software to create a "wallpaper" background 
picture. The board also comes with Spectrum Paint, 



Feature Comparisons of 3 New 24-Bit Graphics Cards 



PRODUCT NAME 


Retina 

MacroSystemUS 


Picasso II 


EGS Spectrum 








Manufacturer 


Expert Services 


GVP 


List Price 


$399 (1MB) 
$449 (2MB) 


$549 (1MB) 


$499 (1MB) 




$614 (2MB) 


$599 (2MB) 


Amiga Models Supported 


2/3/4000 


2/3/4000 


2/3/4000 


I/O Width 


16-bit 
4MB (ZIP) 


16-bit 


16/32-biti 








Maximum Memory 


9 MR (T»IP\ 


QVffD /Cf"\T\ 


ilVlD [Uir) 


ZM1> (ptJJ) 


Color Resolutions (bits) 


1-8, 16, 24 


1-8, 15/16,24 


1-8, 16, 24 


Max. Pixel Res. (8-bit) 
Max. Pixel Res. (24-bit) 


2400xl200(i) 
1152x862 


1600xl200(i) 


1600xl280(i) 

o r"i A u c; f\ r\ 


800X500 


8OOX0OO 


Monitor Types 


1084, VGA, SVGA 


1084, VGA, SVGA 


1084, VGA, SVGA 


Auto Monitor Switch? 


No 2 


Yes 


Yes 


Workbench Emulation? 


Yes 
Yes 


Yes 


Yes 


Mode-Promotion Software? 


Yes 


Yes 3 


AGA Emulation? 4 


Yes 


No 


Yes / 


Multiple Boards? 5 


Yes (up to four) 


No 


Yes 'Tgjfr 


Work w/Toaster? 


Yes 


Yes 


Yes M 


I"V' Video Output? 


Yes 5 


Yes 5 


Yes fi /J \. 



NOTES 

(i) = interlaced 

1 via auto-sense 

2 External automatic monitor switch will be available in the near future. 

3 Mode-promotion software is available with the new Spectrum software, 
1 256-rolor applications under Workbench 2. I 



-' per computer 

fi External encoder is required. 



Another TV Paint 
image by Paul Nicolai 




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BOARDS 



Update Report . . . 

WHILE MOST OF the coverage in the main 
article focuses on the three graphics boards 
that have debuted over the last 12 months. 
you may be wondering what has happened 
witli the original boards presented in our 
last {Feb. '93) roundup. In many cases, they 
have been updated to meet the challenge of 
the new generation of display devices. 
Flere's a brief rundown on the changes: 

Harlequin Plus The updated version of the 
ACS / Haitex Harlequin (from $1085) fea- 
tures four screen sizes — from 640x486 to 
910x486— and adds 4-bit (16 colors), 8-bit 
(256 colors), and 15-bit (32,768 colors) color 
modes to the board's 24-bit color capabilities. 
At lower color resolutions, you can nip 
among several display pages for better ani- 
mation. 

rV24-A4000 GVP has updated its IV24 
board to work with the Amiga 4000. It now 
functions twice as fast as before. Updated 
software will also be included. 

Opal Vision Centaur's OpalVision ($699) 
sports a new version of its OpalPaint soft- 
ware. In addition, if alt goes as planned, 



the promised video add-on modules will 
be available for sale by the time you read 
this. 

Video Toaster 4000 "lite recent incarna- 
tion o[ the NewTck classic (S2:>9."i) is an 
A4000-compatible version. The Toaster 3.0 
software contained many new features and 
enhancements (especially to I.ightWave and 
the CG), and a 3.1 upgrade is now available 
(see this month's "Reviews" section). 

Visiona Microl'ace's board never really 
entered general release after being 
announced a year ago. As of this writing, die 
hardware is finished but the software is being 
completely rewritten; no definite release dale 
has been set. 

EGS- 1 1 0/24 Since our last article, GVP has 
released its EGS-1 10/24 (from $1999), 
which runs on an Amiga 2000 with a GVT 
accelerator, but the death of the 2000 has 
left its status somewhat up in the air. Cur- 
rently. CAT is selling the board direct to the 
public here, and also through one German 
distributor in Europe. 



. . . And Coming Attractions 



THINGS ARE MOVING so quickly in the 

world of .Amiga graphics boards that as soon 
as we get one board in for review, we hear 
about two others on the way. Four we do 
know something about are mentioned 
below, and some or all of them may even be 
available by the time you read this. 

Retina Z3 MacroSysieniUS' latest version 
of the Retina card ($699 with 1MB, S899 
with 4MB) is optimized for the 32-bit Zorro 
III bus found on the Amiga 3000 and 4000. 
The card will include a bit-blitter for 
enhanced speed, and will cover an even 
wider range of display resolutions than the 
original Retina. It will also offer an optional 
on-board video encoder. MacroSyslcm 
plans an upgrade offer for current Retina 
owners. (Prices quoted do not include TV 
Paint Pro; maximum RAM is 4MB.) 

Merlin Speclronics' Merlin (from $799), a 
German import, offers most of the impor- 
tant features of the new boards: auto-delect 
Zorro II and Zorro III bus selection, a built- 
in monitor switch, a custom blitter, pro- 
grammable resolutions up to 1280x1024 
with 24-bit color, and a RAM capacity of up 
to 16MB (using proprietary SIMMs). It also 
includes composite and separated com- 



posite (Y/C) outputs for video compatibility. 
Merlin has three hardware expansion ports 
for upcoming options such as an overlay 
genlock and a video digitizer. System soft- 
ware includes HRG compatibility libraries, 
a display mode customization program. 
Workbench emulator, and a mode-promo- 
tion program. Applications software 
includes display and animation programs, 
and TV Paint Jr. 

Talon DKB was originally stated to import 
the Piccolo board from German)', but has 
decided to design its own board, the Talon 
instead. Actually, the companv is planning 
a whole family or boards, but the first one 
will he this entry-level product priced to sell 
for under $500. DKB plans to use the EGS 
software libraries for compatibility. 

Piccolo At press time, we received word that 
Creative Computers will pick up US distribu- 
tion of the Piccolo board ($589). "Hie Piccolo 
hardware is very similar to that of GVP's EGS 
Spectrum, complete with Zorro 1I/III 
autosensing. It uses EGS software libraries, 
comes with its own paint program in addition 
to 'IV Paint Jr., and promises optional com- 
posite video out pill, i 

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a 24 -bit paint program with many 
high-end Features. Spectrum owners 
will soon be receiving an offer from 
GVP for a custom version of its pop- 
ular ImageFX image-processing pro- 
gram, which uses the Spectrum for all 
of its screen displays, for only SI 9.95; 
in addition, they will get a special 
upgrade offer for version 2.0 of 
ImageFX when it conies out. 

Although the first version of the Spec- 
trum software didn't include a mode- 
promotion program, the latest version 
(which should be available by the time 
you read this) does. "Flic updated software 
will also feature a simplified installation 
process, using draggable icons, which 
should make it even easier to change your 
configuration. 

GVP should be commended for the 
excellent manual that accompanies the 
Spectrum board. It is both comprehensive 
and well-illustrated, and it explains com- 
plex issues and operations in clear, 
precise English. 

Wrap 'em Up! 

Even more striking than the quantity of 
new Amiga graphics boards is the quality 
of products offered. The new boards 
(Retina, Picasso, and EGS Spectrum), and 
those on the way (Piccolo. Merlin, Talon, 
and Retina 7.3 — see the "Coming Attrac- 
tions" sidebar), are so similar in basic dis- 
play capabilities, compatibility, and price, 
that shoppers must look to less-obvious 
issues on which to base their decisions, 
such as support, the quality and quantity 
of bundled software, and the reputation 
of the company providing the board. 
Some boards may be slightly better than 
others for a specific putpose: Boards with 
more RAM and bigger screen displays will 
be better lor graphics and print, for 
example, while videographers might want 
to wait for Retina Z3 or Merlin to gel a 
built-in video encoder. If you have mul- 
tiple-monitor applications in mind, the 
EGS Spectrum is your best bet, while 
those needing flexible Workbench emu- 
lation should go with Retina, which can 
emulate applications such as ProCalc 
even under Workbench 2.1. Most users, 
however, won't really go wrong with any 
of them. This means that while your deci- 
sion may not be an easy one to make, you 
probably will not regret it. ■ 

Sheldon Leenuni, a computer/video consul- 
tant and instructor, is the author of two books 
and scores of ankles covering the Amiga. He 
is currently writing a third book, concerning 
the Video Toaster, and is Amiga Forum 
Manager on National Videotex Network. 
Write to him do AmigaWorld Editorial, 80 
Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458. 



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f you're looking for tranquil seas in the computer 
market, steer clear of the body of water marked 
"Color Printers." But if you're the adventurous sort, 
and you're ready for some exciting new developments 
(at some equally exciting prices), that's exactly the course 
you should be plotting. 

Just a little more than a year ago, you had only two 
choices: clunky, dot-matrix printers — cobbled up with 
color ribbons — and the less-than-wonderful Hewlett- 
Packard 500C — whose three-color printing process for 
graphics was merely okay at best. 

Hurricane Warning! 

Over the last year, however, the field has exploded. 
First, HP introduced its four-color DeskJet 550G, 
pushing the street price of the DeskJet 500C under the 
$500 mark. Then Canon brought color to its Bubblcjei 
line, first with the larger BJC-800, and more recently 
with the BJC-600. The war was on! HP responded a few 
months ago with the 1 200C — a faster 550C with a Post- 
Script option. (And as this article was going to press, HP 
also announced its 560C — pushing the 550C's street 
price down to the S500 level — but more on that later.) 
Most recently, a new technology (new to the undcr- 
S 1 000 category, that is), thermal-wax transfer, was intro- 
duced by both Star Micronics (the SJ-144) and Kargo 
(the Primera). Fargo, however, really stood the printer 
market on its ear with the announcement of a Primera 
model (at. a little over §1000) sporting a dye-sublimation 




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I'l IOTOGRA1M IKD I1V Kt) JUD1CF. 




AW has its spyglass trained 

on four popular printers — 

all under $1000— 

to find out just how seaworthy 

each one is when it comes to handling 

your color printing needs. 




printing option — a high-quality color printing tech- 
nology that before now was available only on very high- 
end machines with base prices beginning in the 
$8000-310,000 range! 

So, Ironi dead calm to hurricane force, the winds of 
change have swept the color-printer market — leaving 
yon plenty of Options to choose from. But profusion has 
brought confusion, too, and that's why a comprehensive 
comparison of current offerings is in order. 

Compass Settings 

For our purposes, we'll be comparing four basic models 
(with some options): HP's DeskJet 550C, Canon's BJC- 
600, Fargo' s Primera, and Star's SJ-144. In addition to 
the descriptions in the main text, features and functions 
of the four printers arc presented in a comparison chart. 
Also, we've conducted a print-quality comparison test 
using a specially selected set of three images ("Two 
Macaws" and "Girl in Red" from Kodak's CD-ROM 
image sampler and the DeluxePaint "Color Wheel"). 
Results are displayed in a sidebar. 

Manufacturers' suggested retail prices are pre- 
sented for each printer, but I've also included fairly 
representative street prices in each of the write-ups in 
the main text to help give you a better idea of the 
actual amount you're likely to pay if you shop around. 
(To contact the developers of any product covered in this 
article, consult the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" 
list on p. 94.) *■ 



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HP DeskJet 550C 

ALTHOUGH NOT REALLY thai old. Hewlett- 
Packard's DeskJet is die printer that introduced inkjet 
piintingj and it has already been through more reincar- 
nations dian Shirley MacLaine. Currently there are three 
models supporting color printing (with a fourth just 
announced as this article wwas going to press): the 500C 
(S485), an example of the older three-color technology; 
the 550C (S719), offering true four-color printing; and 
the 1200C (SI 839), essentially a 550C on steroids that 
prints faster and offers PostScript as an option. HP's 
560C reportedly will offer 600x300 resolution when it 
starts shipping in the near future. 

Willi a street price of about S500, (lie DJ 5f>0C is a 
good choice lor those who want very good text output, 
and the ability to have four-color priming available on 
demand. With the 550C, like most inexpensive color 
printers, you can expect banding artifacts from time to 
time, and occasional striping, although the latter is 
usually a sign of a clogged nozzle or low ink supply. 

Paper choice has always been a critical (actor in 
Inkjet printing — especially with four-color work. The 
550C is no exception. On common copy paper you 
might get bv with black text, but not with color. On the 
other hand, HP's clay-coated glossy paper (the LX Jet 
Series) can easily cost more than a dollar per sheet. A 
nice middle ground is paper such as Hainmerniill's 
Laser Print or Laser Plus, which feature a smooth, 

milled surface and 
exceptional whiteness. 
But on anything 
less than HP's two 
papers (the LX Jet 
and the dull-surface 
CXJet Scries at about 
1 1 cents a page), be 
prepared. The 550C 
can lay down a lot of 
liquid, and most color 
prints show it with 
intensive paper wrin- 
kling and color 
bleeding — not exactly 
what you want to see 
in an important busi- 
ness presentation. 

Generally the 
DeskJet 550C held its 
own in our lest com- 
parison. Colors were 
pleasing and well sat- 
urated, but often on 
the muddy side. With 
our three test images, 
the 550C did its best 
work on the color 
wheel, handling die 
difference between 
the dark green back- 
ground and the 
lighter green wedge 
better than the llfC- 
600. Ii didn't perform 
nearly as well on the 




HP DeskJet 5S0C 




Canon BJC-600 



photo scans, however. Text quality - was good, but not 
exceptional, with some ink overspray apparent. 

One other point favoring the 550C is its reputation 
as (he Clydesdale of printers. Well built and mechan- 
ically relined over the years. Ill's DeskJet 550C 
provides a three-year warranty — at least one year 
longer than anv other printer we looked at. 

Canon BJC-600 

WITH THE CANON Bubblejet series, you see a 
departure from HP's approach to color inkjet printing. 
With the DeskJet, every time von load a new ink car- 
tridge von get a new print head, Willi the BJC-600 
($710)— and the BJC-800 (SI 609)— inks are piped to 
a separate print head. Where HP uses one cartridge 
containing the C-M-Y (cyan-niagenta-yellow) inks and 
one black (K) cartridge. Canon uses four separate color 
ink carts. And where the HP technology uses heat to 
force a spray from a print-head nozzle, the Canon's 
Bubblejel method more politely lorms a micro bubble 
that is transferred to paper. 

As your momma used to say, "politeness pays": 
Canon's Bubblejet technology, coupled with a better 
360x360 resolution, give the BJC-600 the nod when it 
comes to black texi output. The characters are simply 
belter formed, sharper, and exhibit less "overspray" 
than HP's DJ 550C. 

On the color side. Canon wins out again. The BJC- 
600 was less prone to banding than the 550C, pro- 
duced less severe wrinkling with plain paper, and its 
color accuracy on our scannetl photographs was better 
overall. While its prints were sometimes a little on ihe 
"contrasty" side — due I suspect to an enhanced black 
mode it uses in color printing — its higher resolution, 
seemingly belter dye formulations, and 64 dots per 
head all made a major difference in the filial tally. 

There's a lot to like about the BJC-600: good quality 
on plain paper, separate ink cartridges, quid priming, 
(54-clot prim head, and even its downloadable font 
capability. And while the BJC-600*s street price of 
about S60I) commands a SI 00 premium over the 
550C, ils superior output, significantly lower cost per 
page, and other special features may well make it worth 
the additional cost to demanding users. 

Fargo Primera 

Till". BIG BUZZ in the Amiga community over the 
last few months concerns the Fargo Primera (pic- 
tured in the opening illustration). Why the interest? 

Well, the Primera is a thermal-wax-transfer printer, 
which puts it into a printing category with Tektronix 
(S3700) and Calcomp (S9000), This is a color-printing 
process known for its quality, and one favored by many 
service bureaus. But the Primera's list price is $995 
(with a street price as low as S700)! 

The price alone would get people's attention, but 
there's more. For an additional S250, the printer can 
output dye-sublimation, near-photographic quality 
prints — which jams it into a category of printers 
costing S.S000-S 10,000 or more. And if you have the 
right software, you can have the dye-sub option almost 
free (see further on in this section). 



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Now, how did Fargo do all that? 

Until now, every wax-transfer or dye- 
sublimation printer was really a com- 
puter with a printer attached. The 
image processing, controller, and 
language features (such as PostScript) 
were all handled by the printer's onboard 
computer. Fargo eliminated that. Instead, the 
image processing is done on your computer. There's 
no printer-language support and almost nothing in 
the way o(' built-in fonts. 

Many of those features, however, are unnecessary for 
Amiga users. Much of our software sends data to the 
printer in the form of a graphics file, anyway. Our 
custom chips and processors were designed for 
graphics processing. This makes the Primera and the 
Amiga a near-perfect marriage. 

So, how does it work!- Great. Thermal-wax printouts 
are brilliant, with very good color rendition. There's 
almost no banding because the printer lays down its 
images through page-sized ribbon panels, one color at 
a time. This nearly eliminates artifacts, unless your 
choice of dither patterns creates them. Fargo offers 
both three- and four-color ribbons. In our tests, the 
three-color prints were very good, whereas the four- 
color prints showed more contrast, accentuating the 
dither pattern. Because the Primera prints at a reso- 
lution of 203x203 dpi, scanned images appear slightly 
soft, but computer-rendered graphics look fine. 

Sublime Sublimation 

Dye-sublimation prints are even more amazing. They 
cio achieve near-photographic quality. Are they per- 
fect? No, but they're close. Depending on (he subject 
matter, you'll sometimes detect slight streaks or 
unevenness in the color. And again, the overall result 
is slightly soft in appearance. But show the Primera's 
dye-sub prints to friends, and I bet most will think they 
came from a color lab. 

To put the Primera's achievement in perspective, 
keep this in mind: To move from 203 dpi to 300 dpi 
will cost you approximately $8000! 

A few caveats: You'll need a good supply of memory, 
or more than just a few megs of free storage space on 
your hard drive, Primera's first step, alter you hit the 
print button, is to perform color separations on your 
graphic image (a process also known as Raster Image 
Processing). That means you have four large graphics 
files that will probably need to be stored somewhere 
temporarily until the process is complete and they can 
be dumped to the printer. With Fargo's driver you 
could need as much as 0MB of space. 

Second, the Primera's ribbons and paper material are 
very susceptible to dust, which shows up as tiny colored 
pinholes in your print-outs. Look carefully at the 
samples accompanying this article and you'll see a few 
that crept in. 

If there's a weak link in the Primera's system, it has 
to be the Amiga printer driver. The problem is that it 
provides you with no way to manipulate or color- 
correct your images. A machine with output this good 
just simply has to have such controls. 

As is often the case with printer snags. Wolf Faust was 
the first to supply a third-party driver for the Primera. 
Based on his widely hailed Studio printing program, 
Faust's StudioDS printing interface (soon to be available 




through MacroSystemUS) sokes several of 
the Primera's problems: Faust's program 
uses minimal memory to accomplish the 
separation process, and there's a loader 
module that can interpret a variety of 
graphics-file formats; in addition, his 
fully developed interface gives complete 
control over every aspect of the final printout. 
You can even create wall-size murals with StudioDS. 
Another Primera problem has also been fixed 
recently. Initially, ASDG's popular linage-processing 
program, Art Department Professional, couldn't lake 
advantage of the Fargo Primera's dye-sub process. 
ASDG, however, has rectified that situation with its 
just-released ADPro 2.5 (S299). Not only does the 
program offer full image processing and 24-bit 
output to Primera users, but ASDG (as well as Faust 
and also GYP for its ImageFX — $429) have licensed 
the software that controls the dye-sublimation 
features. All three now include it in their products, 
which means the dye-sublimation upgrade is built 
into these programs. All you have to do is buy the 
paper and ribbon from Fargo, and you're ready to 
go — at a savings of nearly S200! 

One Primera weak point that no one has addressed, 
though, is the quality of its printed text. Primera's 203- 
dpi resolution, coupled with the bitmapped nature of 
the process, gives text the slightly jagged look we 
used to see in word processing. It's not terribly bad. 
but it's not reproduction quality or even up to the 
level we've come to expect from programs such as 
Final Copy (SoftWood). 

Apart from that, however, if you want high-quality, 
near-photographic color image output, there is 
nothing even close to the Primera on the market 
todav — neither in image quality nor in value. 

Star SJ- 144 

THE STAR SJ-144 ($599) had the potential to be the 
big surprise of our head-to-head competition. Techni- 
cally, the machine is a dye-transfer unit; it uses a four- 
color ribbon cartridge that transfers a polyester dye via 
a heated 144-element head. Its per-print cost is low 
(see table below); its street price of around $500 is very 
competitive; it has the largest onboard memory of the 
bunch; and it's quick, quiet, and lighter than some 
laptop computers. 
Best of all is its black 
and text output. Star 
likens it to laser 
quality, but I'll go one 
step further: It's the 
best I've seen since 
the IBM Selectric with 
film ribbons disap- 
peared. Laser, in my 
opinion, still hasn't 
surpassed that combi- 
nation for quality 7 text 
output. 

The SJ-144 has just 
one problem: It doesn't 
handle scanned images 
and large color areas*- Star SJ-144 




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NOT HAVING OUR own testing labs, like some 
of those mega-size PC publications, we tried to 
approach our printer comparison with common 
sense, rather than electronic measuring devices. 
The computer we used was an Amiga 1200 
with 4MB of RAM and a SCSI interface. It was 
not accelerated. No special graphics boards 
were utilized. 

Hold The Variables 

In order to eliminate as many variables as pos- 
sible, we standardized our tests in certain ways. All 
printer drivers were provided by Wolf Faust. Wolf 
resides in Frankfurt, Germany, and it is indeed one 
of the benefits of our international electronic 
highway that Woff and I were able to "talk" with 
one another nearly every evening on Compu- 
Serve. Wolf has been most generous with his 
time, his advice, and, most importantly, his excel- 
lent Studio packages of drivers and printing inter- 
faces for the Amiga computer. 

Paper was another variable. Our Inkjet tests 
were limited to three papers: Hammermil! Laser 
Print, for plain paper testing; Hewlett-Packard 
CX Jet Series, dull surface.; and HP LX Jet Series 
glossy paper. Primera printouts employed both 
the special papers provided in the Fargo kit and 
the Hammermill Laser. 

In the best of al! worlds, we would have space 
to reproduce a test from each kind of paper for 
each of our test images. Unfortunately, that was 
not possible. Therefore, we have chosen the 
best-looking output for reproduction, regardless 
of which paper it was printed on. For the inkjets 
that was usually the HP CX Jet Series paper. 
Even though much less expensive than the LX 
glossy paper, it almost always provided superior 
images. The LX Jet tended to overemphasize 
the image's dither patterns, giving our test 
images a much grainier look. 

Testing! Testing! 

The test images are from Kodak's CD-ROM image 
sampler. These were JPEG-compressed at 90% 
through ImageFX and downloaded from Compu- 
Serve. (The JPEG image files themselves are 
included in the oval insets.) Using Viewtek, we 
then converted them to 768x512 HAMS images 
for printing. Images for the Primera were printed 
directly from the JPEG files since both ADPro 2.5 
and StudioOS provide built-in readers for such 
image formats. For that reason, you may notice 
some change in aspect ratios between otherwise 
identical images. Viewtek and the other programs 
mentioned interpret the aspect data differently. A 
special clip-art image, "Tiger," from the Finai 
Writer (SoftWood) package was used with the 
Star SJ-144 in place of the "Girl in Red" image to 






Fargo Primera 



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illustrate its abilities with such images and with 
spot color. 

The test images were chosen specifically for 
several reasons. Steve Kelly's "Two Macaws" 
represents highly saturated colors, strong con- 
trasts, and a wide dynamic range. Bob Clemens' 
"Girl in Red," on the other hand, features low 
contrast, subtle color range, and iarge areas of 
fleshtone. The DPaint "Color Wheel" was ren- 
dered to check how the printers handled the solid 
color blocks often found in business-presenta- 
tion graphics. It was also created to check how 
well printers handled closely reiated colors, such 
as blue and teal or dark green and yellow green. 

No Text Please! 

Text samples were not included in our printouts 
here because (1) we were primarily interested in 
color-graphics output, and (2) unless we were to 
eniarge the type samples by huge amounts, the 
subtle differences would be lost in reproduction. 
In addition, the magnification process exagger- 
ates any inherent problems (and creates an 
equally false impression). 

It certainly was not a perfect test, by any 
means, but ! hope the results are useful in the 
real world of graphics printing — and in the hard 
decisions one must make in choosing an expen- 
sive printer. — GL 




Keeping in mind that "pleasing color" is 
an extremely subjective and personal 
thing, compare these printouts with the 
oval originals scattered throughout the 
text. Look for banding — uneven swatches 
of color from top to bottom; white or 
colored stripes through the picture; loss 
of subtle shading; added textures or 
artifacts; overemphasis or deemphasis 
of certain colors (reds and blues, espe- 
cially). Also, realize that, given enough 
time, paper, and Ink, every one of these 
samples could be improved. 



Canon BJC-600 



Star SJ-144 



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PRINTERS 



well. Although it has an excellent built-in adjustment faced with large color areas. In addition to needing 
program for reducing banding and white or black exact physical alignment (which the built-in program 
lines, the print head does not seem up to the task when has), the head in a dye- or wax-transfer printer also 



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Printer 
Manufacturer 

List Price 1 
Print Method 



Physical Characteristics 



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Other 

Manufacturer's Rated Speed** 

Average Print Time {minutes)^ 
Macaws 

Color Wheal 

Warranty 



inn: f i 1 1 n » f i; 



DeskJet 550C 

Hewlett-Packard 

S719 
inkjet 



Dimensions (HxWxD in inches) 


8.2x17.5x15.3 


Weight (pounds! 


14.5 


Number of jets 


50 black, 16 color 


Installed Memory 


80K 


Interface 


serial & parallel 


Resolution (dots per inch) 


300x300 


Paper Handling 




Maximum Paper Size (inches) 


8.5x14 


Maximum Paper Weight 


36 pound 


Item Type Printed 




Cards? 


No 


Overhead Transparencies? 


Yes 


Envelopes? 


Yes 


Landscape Mode? 


Yes 


Paper Path(s) 


lower front 



HQ.IOcpi: 167 cps 

17-19 

7-9.5 
3 years 



BJC-600 
Canon 

$719 
inkjet 



No 
Yes 
Yes 



HQ,10cpi: 170 cps 

16-18.5 
6-8.5 
2 years 



2.5 min/page 
with dye sub 



S II « 



Primera 


SJ-144 


Fargo 


Star Micronics 


S995 2 


$699 


thermal wax; 


thermal 


dye sub 


polyester dye 











6.8x13.7x7 
9.9 


63 


5.8x13.8x10,2 

15 


6.9x12.8x5,5 3 

5.5 


64 
60K 




n/a 

OK 


n/a 
176K 


parallel 
360x360 




parallel 
203x203 


parallel 
360x360 










8.5x14 
28 pound 




8.5x11 

n/a 


9.5x14 
card stock 



Yes 


Yes 


Yes 


top rear 


lower front 


rear top/rear bottom/ 
lower front 



10 cpi: 255 cps 



19-20.5 wax 


14.5-18 


18-21 dye sub 




4.5-12 wax 


5-7.75 


7.5-16 dye sub 





1 year 



2 years 



Notes; 

' Price considerations do not stop with the hardware itself; the cost of ribbons and paper also differ. Here are the consumables you can choose 
from for each printer and their suggested list prices: 

DeskJet 550C: Color cartridge (S34.95), Black-Hi Cap ($31.95), 200 CX paper ($21.95), 50 IX gloss paper ($60). 
BJC 600: All cartridges $8.00. 

Primera: 3-color wax ribbon ($45), 4-color wax ribbon (S45), 25-print dye-sub print kit ($90), 100-print dye-sub kit (S280). Dye-sublimation refill kits 
come complete with ribbon and special paper. 
SJ-144: 3-pack of 4-color ribbons ($22.50). 

2 The standard thermal wax transfer model lists for $995. The model with the dye-sublimation option goes for $1245. 

3 Both the BJC-600 and the SJ-144 use vertical paper feeds, which increases their height factor when the paper support is pulled up. Users with 
pull-out printer shelves or drawers may have clearance problems. 

^ HQ = high-quality print mode; cpi = characters per inch; cps = characters per second. 

5 The range of average printing times represents the effect that various dithering methods can have upon output. Only the dither patterns were 
changed. Lower numbers represent an Ordered 16 pattern; higher numbers represent more complicated patterns such as Blue Noise 30% & Stuki. 



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needs perfectly even temperature from one side ^^ 
of the head to the other. 

And that seems to be die SJ- 1 44's problem. 
Hone end of the head is slightly cooler than 
the other (or slightly holler), the density of 
the color is changed, resulting in a slightly 
lighter or darker color density under that 
section of head. In our tests, the Star would 
often start oil' a print line, then a third of the 
way through it would begin pulling down 
slightly lighter areas of color near one end of 
the head — resulting in a banded appearance. 
Occasionally, one end of the head would print darker 
and the other end lighter on the same pass, giving 
what I call a closed venetian-blind effect. 

Star representatives say that the printer wasn't 
designed lor scanned images and big blocks of color. 
That's why we didn't even include an output example 
in the "Girl in Red" test. Instead, we tried it on the kind 
of spot colored clip art you might use in desktop pub- 
lishing (see the "Tiger" print in the test sidebar) with 
excellent results. Unlike the Primera, which puts down 
a glossy wax image, the SJ-144 uses a dull finish film, 
and on plain paper the output really looks good. 

For desktop publishing — with smaller areas of spot 
color and pure text output — the Star SJ-144 might 
very well be your best bet. All hough not rellecied in 
our comparison chart, there is a black-only ribbon 
available for it thai will give you a 1X0 pages of text 
for less than four cents a page, making its text-only 
output the best and cheapest in our comparison. 

The Real Cost of Color Printing 

TRYING TO COMPUTE the cost of color printing is a 
difficult task because there are no standards. Often the 
manufacturer's specs are of little help, mainly because 
lab specs don't represent real-life printing situations. 
'This is especially true with inkjets. 

On the other hand, printers using sheet ribbons, 
such as the SJ-144 and Primera, have a fixed number 
of four-color sets. Divide the cost of the ribbon by the 
number of panel sets, and you have the cost per print. 
It's even easier with the Primera dye-sub model since 
you buy refill sets that include both paper and ribbon. 

I have seen per-pagc costs for color inkjets ranging 
from S0.05 to SI. 61 . You might get a page of black text 

COST PER PRINT COMPARISONS 
Printer Percent of Coverage/Number of Pages 

25% 50% 100% 




5B0C 


SQ.72/28 


S1.44/14 


32.88/7 


SJ-144 


SO.24/32 


S0.47/16 


SO.94/8 


Primera 








(dye-sub) 


n/a* 


n/a* 


S3.60/25 


Primera 








(wax-transfer) 








Three-color 


n/a* 


n/a* 


SO.39/115 


Four-color 


n/a* 


n/a* 


SO.45/80 



* Partial coverages not applicable to Primera. Regardless ol 
coverage, per-page cost remains the same. Page coverage de- 
fined as full 8.5-inch width by the percentage of 11 inches vertical. 



or a nickel, but you won't get a page of four- 
color Tor SI. 61. With HP's 550C, before you 
make the first print or buy the first sheet of 
paper, you have made an investment of $57 
for just two ink carts. With the Canon BJ- 
600 the investment is less: four carts at S8 
each. But widi either one, your cost per page 
is going to be higher than you might guess. 
An independent research study by R1T 
Research Corp. (Rochester Institute of Tech- 
nology, Rochester, New York) provided the cost 
per-page data (above) on the 550C The Star SJ- 
144 and Fargo Primera data are based on retail pricing 
of their ribbon/paper refill kits. Note that the 550C and 
the SJ-144 examples do not include paper/media costs. 
While the BJC-600was not part of the R1T research, 
we have reached some admittedly non-Scientific con- 
clusions about it. Canon-supplied data suggests it can 
provide 203 pages at 10% coverage, 40.5 at 50%, and 
20 at 100%'. With a cartridge cost of S32, I ill 1 -coverage 
cost per page is SI. 60 — over 307c less than the 550C. 
My limited experience with it supports the premise 
that the BJC-600 provides more full-page printouts 
per set of carts, and thus, the cost per page is lower 
(20-30% lower might be a more realistic range). But, 
as in new-car mileage claims, "Information provided 
for comparison only — your mileage may vary." 

The Final Printout 

After living widi these four printers for nearly six weeks, 
I have come to one conclusion: There is still no perfect, 
one-size-fits-all printer. Each has its strengths and weak- 
nesses, and as of today, it would probably take at least two 
of the above to cover the gamut of printing needs well. 

With inkjets, there's no question that the Canon 
BJC-600 is the top performer. It outperforms the 550C 
in almost every categoiy — sometimes by a lot, some- 
times just a little. Even though the street price of the 
BJC-600 is $100 higher than that or the 550C, its 
overall higher quality output and lower cost per page 
make it our recommended Inkjet. 

Like the Primera, the Star SJ-144 tencls to be some- 
what specialized in its potential appeal to Amiga 
owners. Its inability to handle large color graphics 
without noticeable and objectionable banding is 
definitely a minus. On the other hand, not everyone 
needs that capability, and it is the best text printer in 
the group both in terms of quality and cost per page. 
If high-quality text is your primary need — with clip 
art, line graphics, and spot color as only a secondary 
priority — the SJ-144 is the best choice. 

"The Fargo Primera is exceptional. Nothing comes 
close 10 it in terms of color-graphics output, and its 
wax-transfer prints win the cost-per-page sweepstakes 
hands down. Unfortunately, unless there is some way 
to upgrade its text-handling abilities, it will stay cate- 
gorized as a graphics specialty printer . . . but a damn 
good one! Pair it with a black-only HP 500 or Canon 
BJ-200, and you would have an unbeatable combina- 
tion for text and graphics. If this weakness can be 
overcome, we'll be much closer to that one perfect, 
all-purpose printer eveiyone lusts after. ■ 

Gaty Ludwick is chief print master at The Creative Depart- 
ment, an ad agency in Charlotte, NC. Write lo him c/o Amiga- 
World Editorial, 80 Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458. 



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VVI I EN YOU THINK about printing from your Amiga, 
you probably don't consider using the Shell. After all, 
you can usually take care of all your printing tasks by 
means of vour applications programs. There are cases, 
however, when printing operations can be handled 
faster, easier, and sometimes better via the Shell. If 
you're willing to learn a few AmigaDOS commands, 
you can give your Amiga new printing prowess. 

Print Basics 

First, a quick review of the basics of controlling the 
printer from the Shell. As you may know already, you 
can print plain text files directly from I he Shell without 
loading a word processor. If you want to print a single 
file, say, one called README. 1ST, simply type one of 
the following commands: 

C0PYREADME.1STPRT: 
TYPE >PRT: README.1ST 
PRINTFILES README.1ST 

The last choice, Piintfiles, is a little-known command 
that resides in the Tools directory, (floppy users will 
find it on their Extras disk.) Pnntfiles offers an addi- 
tional advantage to users wishing to prim multiple 
documents. If you use its form-feed option, -f, pre- 
ceding each filename, the printer will eject the page 
after printing that file. Here's an example of printing 
multiple files with form-feeds after each file: 

PRINTFILES -f SPAM.C -f SPAM.H -f SPAM.DOC 

Note that you should not use any of these commands 
to print files saved in anything but plain .ASCII text 
formal; trying to print files in a word processor's native 
formal will produce extraneous garbage characters. 

When you send a file to the printer using the Copy or 
Type command, the printer won't eject the last page of 
your printout. Rather than hitting your printer's form- 
feed switch, siniplv send an eject code, Ctrl-L, to the 
printer. You can insert this at the end of the file if your 
text editor allows control characters. The ED editor 
included with AmigaDOS doesn't, however, so die best 



work-around is to create a new script command called FF 
that will eject your printer's page. To create the com- 
mand, type die following sequence of commands, holding 
down die Ctrl key and hitting L where you see Ctrl-L: 



COPY*T0S:FF 
ECHO >PRT: "Ctrl-L" 



Tress Return and type Ctrl-\ to terminate the copy 
command. Now type 

PROTECT S;FF+S 

to make the script command executable. Now you can 
just type FF at the Shell prompt whenever you want to 
eject a page. 

Taking "CMD" of Your Printer 

When it comes to printing, the diamond of all the 
AmigaDOS gems is the CMD command. Found in the 
Tools directory, this command grabs any data thai 
would normally go to the printer and stores it in a file, 
instead. (The name comes from the CMD statement in 
Commodore's old eight-bit BASIC, which was used 
when you wanted to redirect output to the printer or 
disk drive.) There are a multitude of uses for CMD; 
files created by it can be copied to your printer or even 
taken to another computer to be printed. 

CMD is activated before you choose the print func- 
tion in your application. To have CMD intercept a 
printout and store it in a file called PRINTOUT on the 
RAM disk, type 

RUN CMD PARALLEL RAM:PRINTOUT 

(Substitute SERIAL for PARALLEL if your printer is 
attached to your Amiga's RS-232 serial port.) This will 
cause the next document you print to be sent to a file 
instead. If you want CMD to intercept every file you print 
from that point on, tise the m option to specify multiple 
files. 

RUN CMD PARALLEL RAM: PRINTOUT OPT m 

Note that the m must be lowercase for this to work. 
Each file you print will be stored on the RAM disk, widi a 



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16 May 1994 



ILLUSTRATED BY FRED LYNCH 



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number appended to it: PRINTOUT. 1, 
PRINTOUT^ and so on. 

If you've installed CMD for multiple files, 
remember to disable it before attempting to 
get an actual paper printout. To disable CMD, 
type STATUS and find the process number for 
CMD, then use the Break command to remove 
CMD. For instance, if the Status command 
returns the result 

Process 6: Loaded as command: 
SYS:Tools/CMD 

yoti xvould type BREAK 6 to disable CMD. 

To prim a CMD output file, simply copy it to 
the I'RT: device. For instance, you might type 

COPY RAM:PRINTOUT.3 TO PP.T: 



There are mam' situations where printing a 
CMD-generated file is a better option than 
printing directly from your application. If you 
print multiple copies of the same document, you 
can speed printing of complex documents dra- 
matically by using CMD. Unless you have a slow dot- 
matrix printer, or a very fast Amiga, it's likelv that your 
printer can output the page faster than the Amiga can 
"rasterize" it (translate it into a graphic image in printer 
format), and thus the printer is spending a fair amount 
of time just waiting for data from (he computer. Using 
CMD, tlie Amiga only has to rasterize the document 
once. Simply using the Copy command, vou can now 
send the output directly to the printer, where it will 
print at the printer's Lop speed. You can take advantage 
of the Amiga's type-ahead capability to make issuing 
the multiple Copy commands easy. Type the full Copy 
command, hit Return, and the printer will start working. 
Now press the cursor-up key to recall the command you 
just typed, and hit Return again. Repeat for as many 
copies as you need. (ARexx-savvy users could easily 
construct a simple macro that uses the Do command to 
make as many printouts as needed.) 

Amiga Esperanto 

Since there's nothing that says that a file must be 
printed from the computer it was created on, using 
CMD to save your printout as a file offers yet another 
advantage. If you don't have a printer, or you'd rather 
use a printer connected to another computer, you can 
just copy the file to a floppy disk and take that file to 
another computer for printing. 

Printing larger documents, though, especially those 
containing graphics, may result in CMD files that are too 
large to fit on a floppy. Printer files, however, contain lots 
of repeating patterns, so they compress exceptionally 
well. Using a program such as the shareware LHA. vou 
can often achieve 50 to 80 percent compression. LHA file 
extractors are available for both the PC and Macintosh, 
so compressing the files won't affect portability. 

CMD stores files in the format used by the printer you 
have selected in Printer Preferences, so be sure to select 
the proper driver before printing. For example, if your 
file will be sent to a laser printer, you'll want to select the 
HP_LaserJet or PostScript driver before printing. 

If you want to print your document on a printer 
connected to an MS-DOS machine or a Macintosh, 
you'll need to use CrossDOS to store the CMD- 
generated file on an MS-DOS format disk. (CrossDOS 



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Via simple script commands, you can instantly move among your 
commonly used printer settings without having to load Preferences 
editors to alter the settings every time you want to make a change. 



is included with AmigaDOS 12.1 and later, and is 
available as a stand-alone product from Consultron.) 
Just copy the file to PCO:, making sure all the 
CrossDOS file-translation options are disabled. 

To print the file on an MS-DOS machine use the 
Copy command, as with (he Amiga. You'll need to use 
the /B (Binary) option so that MS-DOS will know it's a 
binary file, rather than a plain ASCII text file. If you 
want to print a file called OUTPUT.3 on a disk in 
drive A:, you'd type 

COPY A:\OUTPUT.3 LPT1 /B 

If you have a Bridgeboard on your Amiga and 
you've added a PC parallel port card for printing from 
PC programs, you may find yourself constantly 
swapping the parallel cable between Amiga and PC 
ports, or fussing with a switchbox. But you can leave 
the parallel cable connected to the PC port and use 
CMD to capture your output to a file. Then use the 
AREAD command with the /B option to copy the file 
to the PC side, where it can then be printed using 
the Copy command above. 

Printing the file on a Macintosh LaserWriter is a 
little more complicated. You'll need a SuperDrive- 
eqttipped Mac (all Macintoshes from the Mac Classic 
on use the 1.44MB SuperDrive), which can read IBM- 
format floppies. Select the PostScript printer driver 
(included with AmigaDOS 2.1 and later) on the Amiga 
and use CMD to create your output file. Use 
CrossDOS to copy that file to a 720K or 1.44MB MS- 
DOS format floppy. Take the disk to the Macintosh 
and use Apple File Exchange to copy the file to the 
Mac's hard drive. Because the Mac has no command- 
line interface, there's no simple Copy command for 
moving the file to the printer. There are, however, a 
number of public-domain and shareware Macintosh 
programs available for copying PostScript files to a 
printer. One such utility is Show Pages, a tiny program 
that will print any PostScript or text file that you drag- 
and-drop onto its icon. 

Quick Change 

Hie Amiga's printing system is very flexible, offering a 
multitude of options for adjusting the final look of your 



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printouts. Although there are thousands of possible 
combinations of settings available, chances are you'll end 
up using perhaps two to four different combinations, 
such as color or mono, and final or draft quality. Instead 
of loading the Printer and PrinterGfx Preferences 
editors ever)' time you want to change your settings, you 
can take advantage of the power of AmigaDOS and make 
the change with a single script command 

When loading a Preferences editor from the Shell, 
you can force it to load a file containing the settings 
you want to use and activate those settings without any 
further interaction from vou — no more clicking on a 
wall of buttons to get everything just right. 

First, decide which settings you use most often. Load 
each Preferences editor and use the Save As function 
to save the file under an appropriate name, such as 
TEXTDRAIT.PRE and GFX DRAFT. PRE. Repeal this 
for each group of commonly used settings. 

Now. create a set of script files that load each group 
of settings. For example, to create a script file called 
PRTDRAFT that will set your printer to use the settings 
saved in the files mentioned above, type ED S: PRT- 
DRAFT to load the AmigaDOS editor, and then type 
the following commands: 

PRINTER FROM SYS:PREFS/PRESETS/TEXTDRAFT.PRE USE 
PRINTERGFX FROM SYS:PREFS/PRESETS/GFXDRAFT.PRE USE 



Press Esc, then \, and finally Return to save the file, 
and then type PROTECT S:PRTDRAFT to make the 
script file executable. Repeat this for the sellings you 
created for final-quality printouts, perhaps calling the 
script PRTFINAL. Now you can adjust printer settings 
by simply typing the appropriate script command, a 
much quicker process than using the graphical Pref- 
erences editors. 

EndShell 

That wraps up our series on mining the secrets of 
AmigaDOS, but there are plenty of other treasures 
waiting to be excavated from your system disks. Don't 
limit yourself to using l he Workbench to maintain your 
files — a little knowledge of Shell and script commands 
can make the most tedious file-maintenance operations 
simple and quick. .And if you're having trouble finding 
particular treasures, let AmigaWorld know. \ext month 
we'll be starting up a regular monthly column featuring 
tips on using the Amiga's operating system. ■ 

Denny Aikin is an editor and a freelance writer. He's the 
author of Denny Atkin's Best Amiga Tips and Secrets, 
which contains handy tips on everything from using Amiga- 
DOS 3.0 to expanding your Amiga system. Contact him do 
AmigaWorld, Editorial Dept.. SO Elm St.. Peterborough, 
\'H 03458 or at DennyAmiga@aoLcom. 



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Get to know the 
ubiquitous C 
language with 
the help of a 
programming pro. 
Part 1 of our two- 
part series explores 
the structure ofC 
and starts you out 
with some 
examples. 




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In today's computer industry, C language is the favorite son. C gets all 
the best toys: compilers, support tools, cross-platform standards, and 
operating-system support. And, C gets to go almost everywhere: It is used 
for mainframes, supercomputers, embedded microcontrollers, digital 
signal processors, and personal computers — including the Amiga. 
Because the language and its set of basic system-interface routines are 
the same no matter which computer you're programming, code written 
for one system is easy to transport to another — as long as it isn't dependent on 
the operating-system specifics of a particular computer. 

Much of the Amiga's operating system, in fact, was written in C, and Com- 
modore provides C interfaces as a standard developer tool. Virtually all 
programmers' documentation and other resources consider C to be the 
primary language for the Amiga. 

Yon can learn to program in C, and the Amiga can be your guide. (Back 
when I started, most computer users knew how to program, and most were 
self-taught.) Fear not, your Amiga is the best computer-language teacher 
available. Its patience is infinite, it never criticizes, and its feedback is nearly 
immediate. 

Of course, you can't learn to program just by reading this article, any more i 



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than you can learn to swim by reading about swim- 
ming. So read this through, but then read it again 
while you're sitting in from of your Amiga. 

How C Works 

The C language has always been implemented with 
compilers — an entire C program is translated into a 
system's native machine language, then run. So C 
executes much faster than BASIC:, which has through 
most of its history been interpreted — the computer 
executes one instruction at a lime. Unlike traditional 
BASIC and FORTRAN, the C Language is a "third- 
generation," or structured, language. It supports user- 
defined subprograms and data structures, as well as 
"goto-free" controls. And while mainframe languages 
such as COBOL are too large to be efficient on small 
computers, C is small enough to work well. Further, 
C was designed to support modular programming 
and is supported with a full-featured set of library 
routines (which is not true of other structured 
programming languages like Pascal). This means that 
a single C program can be written as several separate 
files, each of which can be compiled separately to 
produce a single final program. Modern C language 
and error-checking have also been standardized by 
the ANSI (American National Standard Institute) 
committee, a body that sets guidelines fur language 
implementation. 

While traditional BASIC has a programming "envi- 
ronment," C does not require one. You create a C 



program as a text file with any text editor, much as 
you would type an ASCII letter, AmigaDOS script, or 
ARexx file. This file is then processed by the C 
compiler, the program that translates C into an 
"object" program (that is, machine code with some of 
(he high-level symbolic references retained). Another 
module, called a linker, combines one or more object 
files with any system-library routines necessary, and 
produces an output program called the "executable." 
The result works as a stand-alone program — it is pure 
machine code thai will run on any Amiga without the 
C system or any other run-time support package 
installed. 

Many AmigaDOS and applications programs, 
including the C development systems themselves, are 
produced this way. Most modern C language svstems 
include an integrated text editor that can launch the 
compiler and linker, at least for simple programs. 
Many C packages include extra tools, generally for 
object-library or project management. (See "A 
Command of Languages," Aug. '93, p. 28, for details 
on the various languages and implementations.) 

HiC 

Assuming you have a C compiler (see the "C 

Resources" sidebar), you can try a simple program. 
Let's just print "Hello, World" to an Amiga shell. This 
is enough of a program to ensure that the compiler 
is installed properly on the Amiga. The program is 
simply 



Listing A. 

/* TURTLE, C by Dave Haynie. This module provides a set of "turtle" 

graphics routines designed to help make learning 

C language fun and easy. In SAS C, build this with the line 

sc math standard turtle 

Other C compilers will need to select a math library; some do it by 
default.*/ 

#include <exec/libraries.h> /" Load data for the Amiga */ 
#include <clib/exec_protos.h> /* Operating System */ 

#include < graphics/ gfx.h> 
#include <clib/graphics_protos.h> 
#include <intuition/intuition.h> 
#include <ctib/intuition_protos.h> 

#include <math.h> /* Standard C definitions */ 

* include "turtle.tr /* Load the turtle definitions */ 

/* This defines a pointer to an Intuition Window structure. */ 

static struct Window "window; 

/* This is an unnamed user-defined structure, in this case representing 
the turtle itself. */ 



static struct { 

int heading; 

int posX, posY; 

int penstate; 
} turtle; 

/* The #define command creates an untyped symbolic name when used 
in its simplest form. Such names are used to abstract constant values. 



/* Its heading, in degrees. */ 
/* X,Y position on-screen, */ 
/* What is the pen doing? */ 



for easy changes in the future or, as in this case, to enhance the pro- 
gram's readability. */ 

#define PEN_DOWN 
#define PENUP 1 

#define PEN^ERASE 2 

/* This is an example of a "macro," It tests TRUE if the turtle is open, 
FALSE if the turtle is closed. This is based on the state of the turtle's 
window. */ 

#define TURTLE_OPEN( ) (window 1= NULL| 

/* Variables necessary for the AmigaOS Intuition/Graphics system. 
These are pointers to the "base" structure of the Graphics and Intuition 
libraries. •/ 

struct GfxBase *GfxBase; 

struct IntuitionBase "IntuitionBase; 

/* This code declares a variable, "turtlewindow," which is a 
"NewWindow" structure (defined by intuition.h). This shows how a 
structure can be initialized by the compiler in C if its contents are 
known ahead of time. */ 

static struct NewWindow turtlewindow = { 
0,0,380,190,1,1, 
IDCMP_CLOSEWINDOW, 

WFLG_DRAGBAR 1 WFLG_DEPTH GADGET 1 WFLG_CLOSEGADGET, 
NULL.NULL, 

(char * ("Turtle Graphics Window," 
NULL.NULL, 
40,40,0xffff,0xffff, 
WBENCHSCREEN 

}; 



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#include <stdio.h> 

void main(void) { 

printf("Hello, World!\n"); 
} 

This should be saved as a file called hello.c. It is 
pretty simple to understand: The first line loads infor- 
mation on a set of standard routines into the compiler 
when it's working. Unlike BASIC, which contains most 
of its routines at startup, aC compile]- launches without 
knowledge of any subroutine. So-called "include" files 
tell the compiler about different data structures and 
subroutines. The stdio.h file is an ANSI standard C 
include, which is located in the system's public include 
directory. 

The next line defines a subprogram, or function. A 
programmer can call a subprogram by any name, and 
the names can be at least 32 characters long in most 
modern compilers. Of course, a C program has to 
start somewhere. By convention, the "main" function 
is the first user function called when a C program is 
run. All functions have a list of variables, or formal 
parameters, passed to them (in parentheses), a return 
value type, and a function body (in braces). The main 
function here accepts nothing and returns nothing — 
the data type "void" means "nothing" in C. Its body 
contains a single statement, which calls the standard 
function "priutfO", Just one parameter is passed to the 
[trim ffi uutii in, the string constant "Hello, \Vorld!\n". 
The notation '\n' defines a carriage return; the print!' 



function itself does not force a carriage return. 

C is a statement-oriented language. It lakes all 
spaces, labs, and new lines as "white-space," useful for 
clarity but meaningless to the program itself. The semi- 
colon character delimits statements. 

To run this program, you must compile and link it. 
Run the compiler, either from the text editor or from 
an AmigaDOS shell. The shell command for SAS C 
(version 6.x) to compile and link this example is 

1> sc hello.c LINK 

When this is run, several files should be produced. 
Some compilers may make icon files or other external 
files, but at the very least you should see 

hello.c (the source file) 

hello. o (the object file output by the C compiler) 

hello (the executable file output by the linker) 

When you now type "hello" at the AmigaDOS shell 
prompt, you should see a result something like this: 

1> hello 
Hello, World! 

This is a very simple program, of course. The next 
example is more sophisticated. 

Reptilian Draw: Example I 

"Turtles" have been used in computer education for 
some lime. Think of the turtle as a robot that you can 
direct using simple functions. The turtle has a pen, an i 



/* This function initializes the turtle graphics window using Intuition routines. */ 
void OpenTurtle(void) { 

/ " Make sure the turtle system is open only once. */ 

if (!TURTLE_OPEN[]){ 
" Open the graphics and intuition libraries. OpenLibrary( ) calls can 
fail, $0 test to make sure they didn't. •/ 

GfxBase = (struct GfxBase *]OpenLibrary|"graphics.library",0L); 
IntuitionBase = (struct IntuitionBase ")OpenLibrary("intuition. library, "OLj; 
if (IntuitionBase == NULL 1 1 GfxBase == NULL) { 

CloseTurtleO; 
} 

window = OpenWindow|6turtlewindow|; 
Home) ); 
> 
} 

/* This function waits for the user to request a window closing, then 
frees up the turtle system using Intution functions. */ 

void CloseTurtle(void) { 
struct IntuiMessage "message; 
BOOL quit; 

/* Stop the turtle only if it's open. */ 

if (TURTLE_OPEN()) { 
quit ■ FALSE; 

/* Wait for a CLOSEWINDOW message from Intuition. A full explana- 
tion of this process is beyond the scope of this article. */ 
do{ 
WaitfIL << window->UserPort->mp_SigBit); 
while (message = (struct IntuiMessage ' IGutMsgl window- >UserPort)) { 



if (message->Class == tDCMP_CL0SEWINDOW) 
quit = TRUE; 

} 
} while (I quit); 
CloseWindow( window); 
window = NULL; 

} 

.•■ ' Close the two libraries, but only if they are open already. V 
if (IntuitionBase != NULL) { 

CloseLibrary((struct Library *)lntuitionBase); 

IntuitionBase = NULL; 

} 

if (GfxBase ! = NULL] { 

CloseLibraryl [struct Library *)GfxBase); 

GfxBase = NULL; 
} 
} 

/* This sends the turtle "home" to its base location, the center of the 
window. */ 

void Home(void) { 
if (TURTLE_OPEN| j) ■[ 
PenUp! ); 

MoveXY(window->Width/2,window-> Height/2); 
SetHeading(O); 
} 
} 

/* The three pen functions simply update the pen drawing codes 
and, where appropriate, the color of the graphics system pen in the 
window. V 



void PenDown(void) { 



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if (TURTLE_OPEN( |) { 
turtle, penstate = PEN_DOWN; 
SetAPen) window- > RPort,1 ); 
} 
) 

void PenErase(void) { 
if (TURTLE_OPEN[ )] { 
turtle.penstate = PENERASE; 
SetAPen( wi ndow- > RPort,0); 
} 
} 

void PenUp(void) { 

turtle.penstate = PEN_UP; 
} 

/* This function sets the absolute 
turtle heading, in degrees. 
The setting is from to 359 
degrees. 

void SetHeadinglint degrees! { 

turtle, heading = degrees % 360; 
} 
/* This function returns the turtle heading. •/ 

int GetHeading(void) { 
return turtle. heading; 
} 
/* The relative settings are easily converted to absolutes. */ 

void Rightfint degrees) { 

SetHeadingfturtle.heading + degrees!; 
> 

void Left(int degrees) { 

SetHeadingfturtle.heading - degrees); 
} 
I* This function moves forward from the turtle's current position. If the 



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pen isn't up, drawing is done. The new position is calculated from the 
current position, distance, and heading. */ 

void Forward|int dist) { 
int newX, newY; 
double radangle; 

if (TURTLE_OPEN( )) { 

radangle ■ PI/180.0 * (double|turtle.heading; 

newX = GetXO + |int)(((double)dist) * cos(radangle)); 

newY = GetY() + |int)(((double)dist) * sin(radanglo)); 

MoveXYfnewX, newY); 
} 
} 

/* This function moves backward from the turtle's current position. */ 

void Backward(int dist) { 
Forward[-1 * dist); 

} 

!* The absolute coordinate is changed here. This function respects the 
pen up/down setting, via graphics functions. */ 

void MoveXY(int x, int y) { 
if (TURTLE_OPEN() && turtle.penstate ! = PEN_UP| { 
Move) wi ndow-> RPort,GetX| ),GetY( )); 
Draw(window-> RPort,x,y); 

} 

turtle.posX = x; 

turtie.posY = y; 
} 
/* These functions return the absolute turtle position. */ 

int GetX(void) { 
return turtle.posX; 

y 

int GetY(void) { 
return turtie.posY; 

> 




eraser, and the ability to move in a specified direction 

and distance. B\ controlling the pen and movement of 
the turtle, you can write programs that draw pictures 
in the turtle's window. 

The turtle package consists of a main file, turtle. c 
(see Listing A), and a header file, turtle, h (Listing B). 
The main file is writ leu in (.'.. I don't expect beginners 
to understand the whole program at this point, 
though I have commented it to point out features 
noi fully explained in this text. As mentioned, the C 
compiler knows very hide when ii runs. The example 
program (see Example 1 ) includes the lurtle.h file to 
gain knowledge of the turtle functions for the 
compilation stage. The linker is told to link in 
the turlle.o file, which provides the actual code for the 
turtle functions. Compile, but do not link, the turtle. c 
file to make the turlle.o file, which is linked with all 
the example programs. In SAS/C, this is 

1> sc math standard turtle.c 

The math standard switch is necessary lo select the 

math library to use for the angle calculations in the 

turtle package. Some compilers automatically select a 

default math library. 

Avery simple program is shown in Example 1. Like 



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hello.c, it itnisi include some [unction definitions, 
in this case just die turtle functions. All turtle 
programs start with the OpenTiirlleO function, 
which initializes the turtle's Intuition window. 
This example then puts the turtle's pen down, 
and moves the turtle around to draw a box that's 
50 pixels on a side. Finally, it winds up with the 
CloseTurtIe() function, which waits for the 
window's close box to be clicked. In SAS/C, 
Example 1 can be compiled with the following 
command: 

1> sc math standard link examplel.c turtle. o 
This will generate the program. 

Next month, we will explore three other exam- 
ples that work in the same fashion. You may 
need to refer to this article when you try the 

upcoming examples, so don't loss this issue in 
the meantime! ■ 

Din r llaynie works as Senior System.-, Hardware Engi- 
neer at Commodore. His projects include the C12S, 
every high-end Amiga system, and the A26x0 and 
A4091 boards. He has been programming since age 12, 
and is the author of DiskSalv and SetCPU far the 
Amiga. Write him at Commodore Business Machines, 
1200 Wilson Dr.. West Chester, PA 19380; or contact 
him via the Internet: davchfji ehmvax.commodore.com. 



Listing B. 




/* TURTLE.H by Dave Hayriie 


This file defines the turtle graphics routines. */ 


extern void OpenTurtle(void], 


.- ' Start the turtle graphics package V 


extern void CloseTurtle(void) 


/* Stop the turtle graphics package */ 


extern void Ho me (void): 


/* Send the turtle home, heading */ 


extern void PenDown(void); 


/• The turtle starts drawing V 


extern void PenErase(void); 


/* The turtle starts erasing. */ 


extern void Pen Up (void); 


/* The turtle stops drawing/erasing. */ 


extern void Right(int); 


/* Adjust the angle right by "degrees." */ 


extern void Left(int); 


/* Adjust the angle left by angle "degrees". */ 


extern int GetHeading(void); 
extern void SetHeading(int); 


/* Return the turtle's heading, in degrees. */ 


/* Set the absolute heading. */ 


extern void Forward(int); 


/* Move "disf" units forward. */ 


extern void Backward{int|; 


/* Move "dist" units backward. */ 


extern void MoveXY(int.int); 


/* Set the turtle's absolute position. ■ ■■ 


extern int GetX(void); 


/* Get the turtle's X coordinate. */ 


extern int GetV(void); 


/* Get the turtle's V coordinate. */ 



C Resources 



To program in C, you need a C compiler. You can 

find compiler packages available commercially and 
through freeware channels (the Internet, commer- 
cial BBS systems, and in the Fred Fish library). 
Commerical packages are generally easier for the 
novice 10 set up, bin they can be expensive. SAS/C 
($395, SAS Institute) is a full professional system, 
providing a compiler, linker, text editor, debugger, 
on-line help, and some useful extra tools. Another 
C system, DICE (Dillon's Integrated C Environ- 
ment) is available in both shareware and commer- 
cial forms; the GNU C compiler from ihe Free Soli- 
ware Foundation is also shareware. 

Many C tools are available in the public domain, 
loo, A program called edeel helps demystify one of 
the things most confusing to beginners and even sea- 
soned professionals: the way complex variable types 
are declared in C. In most languages, you declare a 
complex variable based on a structure hierarchy, per- 
haps something like "X is array [20] of pointer to 
character." In C, that's "char *X[20]"; the notation is 
what you need to do to get a character from X. The 
i (led program lets you cither express the stru< ture 
in pseudo-English to get the C version, or type a C 
expression to get an expanded explanation. 

There are numerous examples of C source code 
available, as well. Once you gel past lite basics of C 



programming, you may want examples that address 
more particulars of AmigaDOS itself, or interesting 
sources from other platforms. Watch out for older 
sources, which may also use the older C declaration 
format. If you see mainQ declared as 

void mainlint argc, char *argv[]( {... 

you are dealing with current ANSI-standard func- 
tion parameters. If, instead, it looks like 

mairi() 
int argc; 
char "argvil; 
{.... 

then you've got code using the older C format. You 
may run into some problems with such sources. The 
original C language froni the 1970s did not enforce 
data typing very strongly. As a result, lots of pro- 
grams were written that, while not technically cor- 
rect, happened to work on their orginai platfortns. 
If you try to compile one of these, you will see 
numerous warnings and, in many cases, outright 
errors. Most C compilers have an option to turn off 
the enforcement of ihe ANSI rules, but it's much 
better practice to write according to the stronger 
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ST:25 was designed as a sort of miniature fourth season: sev- 
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sued a set of small but handsome icons that turn up when the 
cursor's held over the relevant portions of a da Yinci-cstjue 
head and torso. (The skimpy docs for the initial European 



By Peter Olnfson, AW Games Editor 




Join Captain Kirk and company onboard the Starship Enter- 
prise in Interplay's Trekie tribute. 

version — the game was coded here, a relative rarity among 
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keyboard commands.) 

For all that, .ST: 2 5 does seem rather small. Each of the 
episodes has a half-dozen or so locations. The designers 
haven't made good use of either the supporting characters by 
allowing the party to split up — this is pretty much Kirk's 
show — or the rest of the ship. (Only the Enterprise's bridge, 
which is interactive and transporter room are displayed.) 

ST:25 is one of an increasing number of AGA-only games, 
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common tongue with our teammates. When a US game de- 
veloper drops out of the Amiga market — and they dropped 
like flies in 1993 — an English one always seems willing to pick 
up the torch and carry on. 

For example, shortly alter l.ucasArts let it he known that 
Fate of Atlantis would be its last Amiga conversion, plans were 
announced for Simon the Sorcerer [Adventure Soft, about 
$40). The publisher's name probably doesn't ring a bell, bin 
(he developer's should: Horrorsofl created the two well-re- 
ceived Klvira games for Accolade. Simon's nothing like that. 
Outwardly, it is as close to a latter-day LucasArts graphic ad- 
venture as one could wish — the obvious differences being that 
the graphics are much better (especially in the AGA version) 
and that the screen-bottom commands have been recast 
somewhat and now appear in script 

This will seem especially familiar — perhaps too familiar — 
to fans of the two Monkey Island games. Just as would-be pi- 
rate Guybrush Threepwood musi treat with three pirates in the 
back room of the SCUMM bar at. the start of Secret of Mon- 
key Island, so would-be wizard Simon has to satisfy the de- 
mands of four wizards in the hack room of the local tavern at 
the outset of StS. Just as the one must get the best of an tin- 



dead (but silly) pirate, so the other has to settle the hash of a 
had (but silly) wizard named Sordid. 

For a while, visiting with StS is an altogether pleasant ex- 
perience, and seems to have been painted with the same Guy- 
brush as the Mis. The huge animated intra — Simon trying to 
perform a magic trick while the credits roll — is adorable. Si- 
mon's not averse to looking straight out of the screen and 
speaking to us directly. Me favors languid, slow-burn conver- 
sations that don't make you laugh outright but feed a smile. 
1 [e doesn't like being leli unattended, and, in I he fashion of 
loe-iapping platform characters, will eventually pull a per- 
sonal stereo from his hat — which holds the whole of his graph- 
ic inventory — plug in, and tune out. 

Along the wav. you'll savor some of the most opulent graph- 
ics ever to turn up in an Amiga adventure — not to mention the 
delightful minor animations of animals frolicking through the 
backdrops — and click on needle-sized objects in this nine-disk 
haystack until you're finally at Sordid' s front door, and become 
needle-sized yourself. 

Then again, certain elements can't he duplicated so easily, 
and while Simon's in main wavs an exemplary adventure, it 
lacks die essential "feel" of the l.ucasArts games. The player 
doesn'l [eel a sense of being part of an unfolding stoiy so 



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Fury of the Furries 

I'm starting to love this massive ar- 
cade/puzzle game from France |Kalis- 
to, distributed by Mindscape UK, 
about S35). Furries are four itty-bitty 
colored fuzzballs, each with a different skill — unleashing fireballs, stamp- 
ing through certain blocks, using a rope, swimming underwater, 

The tiny voices, lanky level construction, and time limits recall Lem- 
mings; and the puzzles remind you of Rick Dangerous. The joystick con- 
trol is hair-trigger (in a good way), the difficulty deceptive, the Furry faces 
a hoot, and the end-of-level screen rotations give the lie to assertions that 
the Amiga can't handle that little trick. (Take that. Mode 7.) And it sensi- 
bly avoids PAL/NTSC problems that plague so many Amiga games by let- 
ting you select a mode at boot. A few passwords would have eased my 
path a bit, but I'm not about to start complaining considering how much 
fun I've had in a tiny fraction of the total play area. 



Giger's Alien — will give you nightmares. Alas, so, probably, will your ex- 
perience with Space Hulk. 



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Space Hulk 

Cons: It ends EA's hitting streak. 
This long-awaited board game con- 
version [Electronic Arts, S59.95) — a 
tough 3-D bug hunt a la Aliens — is 
missing most of the voices and all of the animated intro of the IBM ver- 
sion. It isn't hard disk installable, even though the three disks are Amiga- 
DOS, and by the time I started my second training mission on a one-flop- 
py machine I must have swapped them a dozen times. The walls in the 
derelict spacecraft your marines are "cleansing" of genestealers look like 
psychologists' ink-blot tests, with each side of a panel the mirror image of 
the other. Space Hulk scrolls from square to square, but the speed drags 
even on an A3000/Z5. 

Pros: The music and sound effects make a significant contribution to the 
atmosphere, which, despite all the cons, can be as thick as sap in the more 
substantial missions. The move planning screen, which enables you to set 
all the troopers in motion simultaneously, is nicely handled. 

And the genestealers — shambling horrors which borrow liberally from 



Tom Landry 
Strategy Football 
Deluxe Edition 



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Some ways back I wrote that the 
original Tom Landry was the best football game for the Amiga. This up- 
dated version only reinforces that impression. No flags on the play here, 
The first game was already pretty impressive. It lacked only a few pe- 
ripherals, which are included here: an editor, real league play, better 
graphics — the color scheme is much more realistic and less gamey — and 
a host of small improvements (like the ability to finetune a blitz), which 
you may not be able to identify at a glance but whose presence you'll 
come to appreciate. It's not a whole new game, but a somewhat more 
complete one. 

The only thing missing is the pro teams. (Those NFL licenses do not 
come cheap.) But with the editor, that's almost a moot point; some de- 
vout soul is bound put together a 1993 NFL data set. To Merit and author 
Kerry Batts: a profound thank you. 



Yo! Joe! 



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Elvis wasn't kidnapped by aliens. 
He isn't living on peanut butter and 
fried banana sandwiches in a trailer 
park in Idaho with a 400-pound 
woman. And his profile isn't burned into a burrito sold to his demon 
love-child in Tijuana. I know, because I found him. He's the main character 
in Yo! Joe! (Blue Byte/Play Byte, distributed by Kompart UK, about S35), 
It's him, all right: Big plume of greasy black hair, sunglasses, white jump- 
suit. If he could talk, he'd probably just say, "Thayaverimush!" 

'Course, he doesn't talk. We just get this Shadow-of-the-Beast-goes-dis- 

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much as the veliicle for a long chain-reaction collision of ob- 
jects — some of them unreasonably difficult to find. (For in- 
stance, why should it be so difficult to simply go behind the 
collage where the game opens?) In fact, this really isn't a sto- 
ry — -just a character, hurdles for the character to vault over, 
and a finish line. (They've just plunked down disparate 
types — a woodcutter, a witch, a pig, an ogre, a musician, an 
archaeologist named Jones — in Simon's path without much 
rhyme or reason.) 

StS also has a tendency to dump game text over backdrops 
of similar color — especially annoying when you're getting one- 
time-only tips in brown-on-brown from the wise old owl in the 
woods — and to allow puzzles to solve themselves by simply 
talking to a character. And a side effect of Simon's bead- 
phones is that it takes him a lot of time to move around, 
though you'll appreciate the location-to-location zapping abil- 
ity that unfolds with the discovery of new areas. 

Ultimately, Simon the Sorcerer is a celebrity look-alike. It 
does a great I.ucasArts bit, but when you look for something 
distinctly its own, you don't come away with much of an im- 
pression except its similarity to something famous. Stylish 
props abound, but this Sorcerer has no magic. 

Mortal Kombat 



Brutal Sports 
Football 



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I LOST MY heart to Mortal 

Kombat (Virgin, about $:55). 

Also my head, llesh, man)- pints of blood, a good part of my 

spinal column., .and my dignity. 

The "death moves" in the Amiga conversion of this con- 
troversial beat-'em-up are not laid out in the manual, but 
they're all in here. Blood is splattered with most blows. Hearts 
are plucked out of chests and held up in triumph. Heads are 
twisted from shoulders. (The spinal column? Oh, that came 
off with the head.) 

As a conversion from the standup arcade game, Mortal 
Kombat is excellent. Many suggest the Amiga version is the 
best yet. The digitized lighters are very close to the originals. 
'fhe sounds are all in place, and the loser's body parts invari- 
ably are not. 

However, as a game, it's simply a somewhat better-than-av- 
erage beat-'em-up. Once the shock of the grisly bits has worn 
off, there's nothing in terms of plot or action to keep your at- 
tention. 

The violence? It's a bit much — at least for pre-teens — al- 
though there's nothing here you haven't already seen 30-feet 
high at the movies. Of course, it's not the first Amiga game to 
go over the top, but the most flagrant offenders — Death 
Sword, Teehnocop. Moonstone, and The Executioner — have 
used blood and guts as a distraction en route to somewhere 
else. (And Death Sword was really funny.) Violence Tor vio- 
lence's sake rarely achieves anything artful, and besides, it 
makes for thin games. 

But I'm equally uncomfortable with the logic that says any 
violence in games is bad, period. An example of blood and 
guts used to outrageous and brilliant effect is Brutal Sports 
Football {Millennium, about S35). It's a richly chaotic me- 
dieval version of football — rugby meets the Battle of Hast- 



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ings — and it's the most riotously good time I've enjoyed in an 
action-oriented sports game since Speedball 2. If I had done 
a Top Ten last year, this would have been in it. 

In fact, the Speedball series isn't a bad basis forjudging BSF, 
Turn that vertical playfield on its side, lilt the perspective 
from top view to angled-down, and replace the guys dressed 
for Rollerball with shirtless Vikings (and inhuman opponents), 
and you've got Brutality. 

While you're at it, turn up the violence factor by 10. Tack- 
les here are more like heavyweight bouts. And when ihev re- 
fer to "heads," they're not talking about the coin-toss. In-game 
decapitations are standard, bringing new meaning to the 
phrase "he had his head handed to him." You don't want to 
know how they handle tiebreakers. 

Add to this a held littered with powerups and special equip- 
ment (not to mention disconnected torsos and heads) and turf 
that looks like a bombed cemetery, and you'd think it would 
be difficult to keep track of what's going on. It isn't. In part. 
that's because play between goals is in one continuous How, 
with the view always following the ball. The graphics are also 
very detailed and crisp, and while the airborne ball sometimes 
disappears from view, a shadow is there for reference. 

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Global 
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Rules 

of Engagement 2 



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THE AMIGA DOESN'T get 
that many strategy games, few- 
er good strategy games, and barely any good strategy games at 
all from US publishers. So when a US publisher brings mil iwo 
top-notch Amiga strategy games and one good one in close 
formation, it is an event of no small import. Sit up and take- 
notice, folks. Impressions has arrived. 

Actually, this New England-based publisher has been arriv- 
ing for some time now. Those who played last year's Air Force 
Commander. Caesar, and Air Bucks 1.2 know the label has 
more going lor it than its Micro Miniatures line (whose tenac- 
ity is out of proportion to the awkwardness of its controls). But 
the progress has been effectively camouflaged by some back- 
ward-looking intermediate releases, and, to the uninitiated. 
Impressions might have appeared to be just loitering on the 
porch. 

So consider this current trio a figurative bang of the screen 
door: "Honey, I'm home. I've got Global Domination, Rules 
of Engagement 2, and When Two Worlds War with me, and 
we're going into the computer room with a six-pack of Diet 
Coke and pepperoni pizza, and we're not coming out until 7 
AM, and then only to call in sick." That is the sort of games 
these are. 

Global Domination (S59.95) is Risk as you always wished 
you could play it — misting the pieces' little plastic necks to 




Global Domination: one of three new war-time strategy games 
from Impressions Software. 

turn them into specific types of units (and lots of 'em) and 
pulling their earlobes until they let you control the battles. The 
enemies .in- smart- despite their goofy retorts. Compared i<> 
the semi-random numskulls in the Amiga version of Risk, 
they're virtual Einsteins, with their hands always on your 
board, taking advantage of weaknesses and mistakes. An AGA 
version is included on the same disks as the standard Amiga 
version and comes off a bit crisper graphically, but not so 
much crisper that OCS/ECS Amigans will feel they've gotten 
short shrift. 

And while I've heard Impressions shipped 400 copies (in- 
cluding mine) without die manual, don't think that'll slow you 
down much. I had a spare set of IBM docs, but looked at them 
onlv to sort out fine points. 

If you played the original Rules of Engagement, you will 
be comfortable with its sequel. Rules of Engagement 2's 
(S69.95) interface and controls are similar — that computer- 
console look — and there's still a mission builder. ROE2 still 
hooks into Breach 2 — and the impending (and gorgeous) 
Breach 'A — so you can light out shipboard and ground bat- 
lie-- in detail. 

But don't become complacent. ROE2 has depths you 
won't sound any time soon. Here's a game you can wear like 
a quilted coat; there's a sense throughout of being happily 
surrounded. The enemies can be slartlingly smart or just 
surprisingly lively, and you can create them right down to 
their artificial intelligence — to the best of my knowledge a 
computer-gaming first. A "tree" structure is now used for 
campaigns, in the style of Wing Commander, so different re- 
sults lead to different missions. And while ROE sometimes 
struck me as all interface, ROE2 has a more intimate, dense- 
lv packed feeling of Something Oul There That Doesn't 
Like Me. 

The screens are still a bit busy, but also functional (with 
great little pop-up menus), and I found it easier to under- 
stand what was going on. This would be one of the most so- 
phisticated space strategy games for the Amiga even if it 
didn't have the mission builder — which is to-die-for — and it's 
one Til play with pleasure even when I don't have to write 
about it. 

Finally, When Two Worlds War ($59.95) is Empire as you 
only imagined it. The key word here is control. You build dif- 
ferent production facilities, program the vehicles, research 
improvements, and at length send them off to beat down an- 
other planet (whose proprietor is trying to do the same to 
you). "This is pretty cool sluff — a mure hands-on version of 
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epiphany with the manual, it's like ice skating. 

At the same time, none of the games is quite perfect. WTWW 
and Global Domination both lost modem plav somewhere 
along l he road from IBM to Amiga — not an unusual sacrifice 
in the conversion process, but a potentially more damaging 
one than Impressions may have known. Rules 2 similarly ftas 
had a few curls taken out of its hair en route, and lite graph- 
ics could he livelier. (This one could really bcnelil from AGA 
treatment, which it's apparently slated to receive only in its Eu- 
ropean incarnation.) 

By contrast, the standard version of WTWW looks good 
enough to be AGA, but its welter of menus and options is more 
than a bit obtuse — after all, one of Empire's and Dune II's great 
assets was accessibility — and I sometimes wished there was more 
game than gadget onscreen. The learning curve could strike vou 
out unless you're light with thai manual. 

None of this will stop you from playing, though. Once you 
start, I suspect you won't have much choice . ..or much sleep. 
These games are the definition of addictive. Hook that screen 
door, turn up the music, and turn off the lights and the alarm 
clock. If you've got the time, they've got the war. 



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From p. 64. 

co score. He doesn't swing his hips. He just walks sideways through pleas- 
antly knotty landscapes inhabited by squat HudsonSoft sprites and done 
up in a style that halfway mingles the panache of Gods with a dated, 
cheesy haunted-house platformer. (Elvis does have a neat ability to grab 
ledges, which will bring many can't-get-there-from-here prizes within 
reach. | 

And of course the manual (which is a scream, albeit an unintentional 
one) doesn't admit that he's Elvis. Says he's a graffiti artist named Joe Ma- 
roni, and makes him sound like sort of a Super Mario Ninja Turtle. 

Which is precisely the problem. For what it is, Yo! Joe! is a perfectly 
good arcade-adventure, and HudsonSoft followers probably won't think 
twice about climbing aboard. But aside from quasi-Elvis, there's nothing 
especially different or compelling to yodel about. 



Micro Machines 

Micro Machines really takes me 
back. When I was a kid — and not even 
so little a kid as you might think — my 
brothers and I would gather every lit- 
tle wheeled vehicle in the house and run rallies over Hot Wheels tracks laid 
down the garden path. It didn't matter that the scenery consisted of dirt 
clods, lengths of disenfranchised ice plant, and residue from my father's 
most recent backyard project, that the spectators were snails (living, 
smushed, and feasting on the smushed), or that the prize consisted of be- 
ing carried around in my pocket for the rest of the day. In our little world, 
this race mattered. 

This overhead-view racing game {Codemasters, about S35), brought 
over to the Amiga from the consoles, led me down that garden path all 
over again. You race three opponents in a range of homey settings — bath- 
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room floor and so on. The courses have been lovingly customized: A slide 
rule is a bridge, syrup is a slick, a drain is a whirlpool. Every race is differ- 
ent, and each is a small joy. It's a bit on the childish side, but then, so were 
our races. This is great fun for all ages. ■ 



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By Joel Hagen 



Compound Motion 
Paths 



NEARLY EVERYONE WHO has 
experimented with animation .software 
has discovered how easy it is to spin, 
move, and zoom a brush using auto- 
mated motion features. DeluxePaint 
(Electronic Arts) has its Move requester, 
Brilliance (Digital Creations) its 
'I weening, and so on. Willi these 
features you can enter values for brush 
movement and rotation on the x, y, 
and z axes of computer image space. 
The software then creates the frames 
of that motion for you. 

Not so obvious are techniques for 
creating complex brush movements by 
compounding multiple motion paths. 
This column will help you set up some 
revealing experiments that can add 
new dimensions to your work. 

A brain teaser I sometimes pose to 
animation students is to paint a small 
moon and cause it to trace a convinc- 
ing orbital path around a planet as 
viewed from near the equatorial plane. 
If you are in a puzzle-solving mood, 
give that a try before reading much 
further. In the last section of the 
column, I'll outline one solution to this 
using Dl'aint's Move requester. 

Throughout this column, I will refer 
to DPaint's tools, but the techniques 
apply to any program with similar 
features. If you are completely unfam- 
iliar with the Move requester and 
anhnbrush.es, study the tutorials in 
your manual to learn the basics. 

Join The Movement 

From Anim/iYames/Set# create a 40- 
frame blank animation, stamp a round 
brush on the screen, and Undo. Tile 
values I suggest assume a 640x400 
screen, but work in any resolution you 
like. Just to orient yourself, use the 
Move requester (Shift-M from the key- 
board) to animate the brush across the 
screen from left to right by entering 
200 in the "X Dist" window. Be sure 
Count equals the number of frames in 
your animation. Press Draw and DPaini 
creates a 40-fiame animation of the 
brush moving in a straight line in the 
positive X direction. Clear all frames of 
the animation, stamp the brush down 



again, Undo, and then return to Move 
and press its Clear button. Now try the 
same iclea in the Y direction. Notice 
which direction the brush moves for 
positive and negative V values. Clear 
everything and try Z movement. 

The next experiment involves 
compound motion. Use a quarter-inch 
brush and 20 frames. Enter a "Y Dist" 
of 20 and press Draw. Use Aiiim/Anim- 
brush/Pick Up to grab that 20-frame 
vertical movement as an aninibrush. 
Clear all frames and press Shift-7 to 
reset the aninibrush to the first eel. 
Slanqi it on the screen and Undo. 
Return to Move and clear all Distance 
values. Enter 200 for "X Dist" and set 
Count to 200. In the Move requester's 
Direction panel, press the center Pause 
button under Record. This allows you 
to render the movement to a single 
frame, which makes the path of the 
brush easy to see. When you press 
Draw, von should see 10 diagonal lines 
similar to those at the very top left of 
the accompanying illustration. (A 
Count of 200 with a 20-ceI aninibrush 
equals 10 lines.) Next, select the ping- 
pong button in Auimbrush/Settings. 
Locate the aninibrush on the page 
again (Shift-7, stamp, Undo) and then 
Move. Use the same settings and Draw. 
You should see an up-and-down zigzag 
as in the upper left of the illustration. 

To add another layer to the explor- 
ation, repeat the procedure in the 
previous paragraph with the following 
variation. When you first enter the "Y 
Dist," enter a value of 10 in both Ease 
Out and Ease In. This causes the brush 
to accelerate away from its starling 
position and decelerate into its end 
position. When that animation is used 
as an animbrush in the Move 
requester, the result should be similar 
to the center-left pair in the illustra- 
tion. This could be used to draw screw 
threads by varying the "X Dist" and 
Count. Ping-pong the animbrush and 
it describes a sine wave as it moves in 
the X direction. The Ease settings have 
a powerful effect on brush paths and 
can be used to simulate the motion of 
bodies affected by gravity and accelera- 



72 Mm 1994 



Achieve complex motion in your animations by experimenting 
with these animbrush techniques. 



tion. The bottom pair of motion paths 
in the illustration shows the result of 
using only Ease Out values. This can 
be used in animating bouncing or 
ballistic movements. 

The next experiment is the "entwin- 
ing" trick shown at the top right of the 
illustration. You might use it to paint 
interesting borders or designs. Place 
two or three dots side by side and pick 
them up as a brush as shown. Stamp 
and Undo to locate the brush on the 
page. In Move, enter— 100 in "Y Dist" 
and 1200 Cor the Z .Angle. Press Draw 
to render the rope-like form to a single 
screen. I he dots make several full 
revolutions around each other as they 
move down the screen. Experiment 
with other values and brush configura- 
tions. See what happens if you create 
an animbrush with this technique and 
use it on a new path in Move. Combi- 
nations of these techniques can 
produce spirals, cycloids, and other 
complex paths and shapes. 

'Round and 'Round We Go 

I he planetary orbit is a fun challenge 
and can produce impressive anima- 
tions. The realistic motion relies on 
compound sequences of Ease In and 
Out values. Set up a 40-frame anima- 
tion and use a half-inch round brush 
for your experiments. For a smoother 
animation, you can use more frames 
once you are sure of the technique. To 
simplify things, I will present the steps 
as succinctly as possible. In Move, keep 
the Count always at 10 for this 40- 
frame animation. The orbit is rendered 
in four phases, one quadrant at a time 
(e.g., for a 200-frame animation, use a 
50-framc Count). You will use either 
t'ase Out or Ease In for each step, but 
not both. All X, V. and 7. values given 
are Distance settings. 

The first step shrinks the brush into 
Z space and back in four phases: 

1)Z = +250 ease out 10 
2)Z = +250 case in 10 
3)Z = -250 ease out 10 

4)7 = -250 ease in 10 

Pick up this motion as an animbrush 



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Using a moving image as an animbrush in a new path enables you to achieve com- 
plex motion. This illustration shows representations of the experiments outlined In 
tho column, including an orbiting plantet animation. 



and use it in Move for the next path 
after clearing everything. 

The second step creates a vertical path: 

l)V = -30 ease out 

2) Y = -30 ease in 

3) Y = +30 case out 

4) Y = +30 ease in 

Pick up this motion as an animbrush 
and use it in Move for the next path 
after clearing everything. 

The third step uses a horizontal path 
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l)X = +200 case in 
2)X = -200 ease out 
3) X = -200 ease in 
4)X = +200 ease out 

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planet as the distant brush passes 



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We'll wrap up our two-part series on sound for video 
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By Paulo de Andrade 



LAST MONTH WE examined some of 
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for-video setup. We'll conclude by 
looking at the remaining pines, and 
learning how to make a final test to 
ensure your results. 

MicUp 

While most video cameras come with a 
built-in microphone, this ink oilers a 
design compromise so it can perform in 
a wide range nl situations. If von want 
your productions to sound professional, 
you need a feu* specialized types. 

The small mic you see on the lapel 
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lavalier. It is designed to pick up the 
human voice while ignoring ambient 
noise. Placed close to your subject's 
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warm, rich sound. The best lavalier: 
minimize noise generated by rustling 
clothes. Si/.e varies from obtrusively 
large to incredibly small: usually, the 
smallest are the most expensive. 

The shotgun microphone picks up 
sounds directly in front of it, but not 
from beside and behind. Sensitivity in 
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While all hand-held microphones 
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Mix It 

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fust as a mixer can have many 
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All gootl mixers let you adjust certain 
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a multi-effects unit that does the job of 
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nate distraction. 

Setting Records 

Just as New Tck's Toaster changed the 
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you can manipulate it in several ways. 
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permanent fades or volume changes, or 
scale the sound so that its volume is as 
high as possible without distortion (as 
with a compressor/limiter). You can edit 
in a nonlinear fashion. Sound is shown 
graphically on screen and you can 



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range from the graphic and play it. 
When you lind the section you want, 
you can cut, paste, invert, repeat, and 
more, 'litis versatility lets you remove 
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from a different section of a narration. 
The possibilities are tremendous. 

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bird's sound to the fifth track. To 
emphasize the eagle's flight, you add 
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(on the seventh track) and, suddenly, a 
shot (on the eighth track) as we cut to a 
hunter taking aim at the bird. 

You could accomplish a similar effect 
by mixing the different sounds in several 
passes using traditional methods. But 
doing so would involve much work and 
degrade the quality. With the AD-516, 
you have all the sounds on individual 
tracks, ready to be mixed down to the 
edit deck's two tracks. The result is a 
perfectly balanced digital-quality stereo 
soundtrack with no added noise. 

Frame Accuracy 

Another great feature of AD">l6/Stiidio 
16 is the ability to assign sounds to 
specific time-code addresses and lock 
perfectly to video. The board has a 
SMPTE time-code input that can con- 
nect to the SMPTE output of your 
VTR. With time code, each video frame 
has a specific number, or address. This 
number never changes, and a frame 
always has the same address (unless 
you record a different time code). 

With Studio 16 you can take advan- 
tage of this precision by assigning 
sounds to specific frames. Using the 



documentary example, the hunter 
shoots at the eagle again. This time, 
the hunter is on screen and we want 
the sound of the gunshot to match the 
tiame where we see the rifle being 
fired. We advance the tape to that 
frame, read its time-code address, and 
type that number into Sttidio lB'.s Cue 
List for the gunshot sound. When we 
play back the tape, Studio 16 will 
sound the shot exactly on lime. 

Synchronizing sound to video litis 
way is extremely easy and saves many 
videotape edits. It also saves wear and 
tear on your YTRs. especially the video 
heads. In fact, \TR maintenance 
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SunRize board in the long run. 

The Hookup and Final Test 

Cables are frequently underrated but 
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ones can cause several problems. 
Besides, cables are one of the least 
expensive part of the audio system, so 
there is no reason to skimp here. 

Once your components are con- 
nected and everything sounds great on 



the studio monitors, you should make 
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one — before you record your final 
soundtrack to video: Make sure the 
audio sounds good on an ordinary 
television speaker. The speakers on 
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handle too much bass withoul ran ling 
the whole set. If your audio was 
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on any TV — but you don't want to 
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Your recorder \TR should have an 
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to your video monitor's audio input. 
Most professional video monitors have 
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emphasize weak frequencies. Once il 
sounds OK, reduce the monitor 
volume and crank up the amp's level. 

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.1500 was in the. process (if wanning up, an 
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pole, in turn damaging the part of my hard 
drive that aulobools the system. I eanno! 
semi the unit to GVP for repairs, since it 
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program, and a program to create an 
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McHenry, Illinois 

A. For defragmenting your drives, 
there are several options available. 
Disk #519 of the freely distributable 
Fred Fish colled ion includes ChkFrag, 
a program that checks the level of disk 
fragmentation on both floppies and 
hard drives. If you have a badly frag- 
mented device, the best solution is 
Holger Rinse's freely distributable 
ReOrg 8.1, which has been in the 
public domain since last September, 
Sporting a nicely designed interface, 
this program defragments any loose 
blocks on both floppy and hard disks, 
using a graph for a real-time depiction 
of fragmentation level and the pro- 
gram's progress. Use ibis utility with 
caution, though — I once completely 
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hard disk by inadvertently interrupting 
il in midstream. A recent patch lo this 
file is also available on most UBSs. 

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that had been stored in a back closet 
because they could no longer read 
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offerings for alignment programs are 
rare: however. CompuServe does stock 
a program called ALIGN l.LZI I in the 
Disk Utilities library of the Amiga User 
forum. While I currently don't have a 
floppy tlrive whacked far enough out 
of alignment to lest the program's 
accuracy, it seems to go through the 
disk-alignment motions with a certain 
authority. 

GYP's installation software for its 
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and assorted mourning utilities that 
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Q. / have an Amiga 2000 equipped with a 
M.A.S.T. Fireball hard-drive controller and 
an 8MB HAM card. My problem is that the 
controller does not seem to operate under 
AmigaDOS 2.1. When the 2.1 Kickstart 
ROM is installed on the motherboard, the 
computer refuses to hoot, even from a floppy. 
If I replace the Kickstart 1.3 ROM. all is 
fine. I tried to contact M.A.S.T, at its 
Sparks, NV, address without success. Is 
there an upgrade kit for the Fireball, or do 
I bite the bullet and invest in another 
controller? 

Doug Koehter 
liettendorf, Iowa 

A. Indeed, M.A.S.T. has vanished 
into the great unknown and has left 
behind a Hail of orphaned products. 
The best course of action is to replace 
the controller with one from another 
developer. If the Fireball is an auto- 
booting SCSI controller, be sure to 
replace it with a similarly equipped 
controller, such as a Commodore 
A2091 . which will work line under the 
newer operating system. 

I suggest you consider another 
potential problem — not mentioned in 



your letter. On the off chance you 
installed the 2.1 ROM and your A2000 
is equipped with the once-popular 

Commodore 2620 accelerator, there 
are two socketed ROMs on it that need 
upgrading in order to work with 2.04 
and higher. The lop (U5) ROM is 
numbered 390283-01 and ibe bottom 
ROM is numbered 390282-01. These 
need to be replaced with ROMs 
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Muffler Repair 

Q. / use an A2000 with 2.04 Kickstart 
ROMs. Is it possible to turn off the 
"clicking" sounds the floppy drives make 
when a disk is not inserted"! 1 Ive tried to 
alter the startup sequence to no avail. 

C.J. Taibert 
Pensacola, Florida 

A. Rewriting your startup sequence is 

not the answer — unless you're adding a 
line to launch a utility that silences the 
clicking. A number of multiple- 
Junction utilities, such as older versions 
of SetCPU and a small assortment of 
miscellaneous freely distributable offer- 
ings, muffle clicking drives. You can 
find Lake Forest Logic's freely distrib- 
utable NClick by Eric C. Quackebush 
on a few disk collections and HflSs. 
This AmigaDOS 2.0-and-higher pro- 
gram is a little tricky to use, only 
because it doesn't employ conventional 
syntax, and documentation typically 
isn't included with this small program. 
To launch this from the command line, 
you must enter "NClick 1" — not 
"NClick dfl:" — to silence drive dfl:. 
Workbench 1.3 users need to find a 
copy of NoClick 3.6, another freely 
distributable offering for making 
Am igas quieter. 

Now. if there was only a utility that 
could quiet cooling fans.. . ■ 

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While lite Form Designer is easy to 
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it does not follow all standard Amiga 
conventions. For example, to select an 
object on the screen for editing requires 
a double-click with the mouse instead oi 
the usual single click. And if you have a 
large field to be filled with text, each line 
must be entered individually. You must 
place the cursor at the start of (he line 
with the mouse, type a line of text, then 
awkwardly place the cursor on the next 
line with the mouse to continue typing. 

Data generated by most later versions 
of popular PC programs such as DBase 
and Lotus 1-2-3 can be imported and 
exported by SBase-1. Note that this 
requires Workbench '2.1 or higher, or a 
separate utility such as CrossDOS to read 
and write PC-formatted disks. If you 
need to look at this data, you can use the 
Open File menu item, but this does not 
allow you to change any of the data. To 
do so, you must use the Process Import 



menu, which converts the foreign file to 
SBase-fs own formal for manipulation. 
You can then choose to save it as an 
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supported. Oxxi recently upgraded its 
spreadsheet, Superplan ($1-19.95), which 
now works under AmigaDOS 2.0/3.0; 
both versions of SBase-J can directly read 
its liles. 

Packaged Deal 

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programs — a telecommunications mod- 
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baud, along with three tile protocols. Pro 
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Also included in both versions of 
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search-and-reptace, but it is not a full- 
feamred word processor. As with earlier 
Superbases, mail-merging text with 



SBase data files remains its best feature. 

The major functional difference 
between the Pro and Personal packages 
is the inclusion of the Database 
Management Language module in the 
Pro version. A complete programming 
language founded on BASIC, DM1. is 
optimized for database tasks. At the sim- 
plest level, it can be used to write macros 
for automating repetitive keyboard and 
mouse actions or often-repeated steps. 
At the upper end of the complexity scale, 
you can create complete applications 
with their own custom menus and 
requesters. Applications developed with 
DM I. can be used by any SBase4 owner. 
By purchasing a separate Developers 
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fee. you can even create stand-alone 
applications. 

Despite a few lingering inconve- 
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lor Medgling database users, SBase4 has 
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SCSI-TV Relested 

We are pleased that you included our product, SCSI-TV ;>70, 
a hard-disk interface for CDTV, in the December issue ("Spin 
Doctors — Part 2," p. 41). Readers can contact us at Ami 1 fix 
Development (5312-47 Street. Beaumont, Alberta, LIN IH9 
Canada), or via e-mail: AFolkins@fiIX.com (Usenet and BIX) or 
74130,3033 (CompuServe). 

Unfortunately, the only external hard drive available when testing 
the -S( SI-TV was an older drive of considerably slower performance 
than those used with the rest ol the review. To give a better compar- 
ison, we have rerun the speed tests with a 2-1/2" Quantum Go-Drive 
80S (16 ins) bard drive, mounted on the card, 'llic SCSI-TV 570 
interface produces comparable performance numbers to those in die 
table, since thev are identical except for the case and oriental ion. 

Syslnfo 3. 1-1 (system read spceds)/SCSl— 1 103 

MKSolt's DiskSpeed 4.2 (directory manipulation speeds): 
Create: 12 
Open: 24 



Delete: 43 
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DIR.Scan: 60 



MKSoft's DiskSpeed 4.2 (life create, write, read speeds): 
Create: 205 Read: 965 

Write: 803 

Adding fast RAM to CDTV with an expansion board such as our 
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Manufacturers'/ Distributors' Addresses 




Adventure Soft 


DevWare 


Kompart 


Spectronics International 


PO Box im 


12528 Kirkham Court, 


Guilford House 


34 E. Main St., #3 


Sutton, Cold Field 


Suite 1 1 -A 1 7 


20 Guilford Rd. 


Champaign, 11,61820 


W. Midlands 


Poway, CA 92064 


St. Albans 


217/352-0061 


B74 4HG 


619/679-2825 


Herefordshire 




England 




ALI 5JY 


Star Microti ics America 


21-352-0847 


Digital Audio Designs 


England 


120 Lexington Ave., 




PO Box 5068 


72-786-8005 


Suite 2702 


Almaihera Systems 


Fullerton, CA 92635 




New York, NY 10170 


Southerton House 


714/562-5926 


MacroSvstemUS 


908/572-6597 


Boundary Business Court 




24282 Lynwood, 




92-94 Church Rd. 


Digital Creations 


Suite 101 


SunRize Industries 


Mitcham, Surrey 


160 Blue Ravine Rd., 


Novi, MI 48374 


2959 S. Winchester Blvd., 


CR4 3TD 


Suite B 


810/347-6266 


Suite 204 


England 


Folsoin, CA 95630 




Campbell, CA 95008 


Ml -687-0040 


916/344-1825 


Merit Software 
13635 Gamma Rd. 


408/374-4962 


ASDG 


Digital Micron ics 


Dallas, TX 7524-1 


Virgin UK 


925 Stewart St. 


2075 Corte del Nogal 


214/385-2353 


)88A Ladbroke Grove 


Madison, WI 53713 


Carlsbad, CA 92009 




London 


608/273-6585 


619/931-8554 


MicroPace 


VV10 5AH 






109 S. Duncan Rd. 


England 


Avongard Products 


DKB 


Champaign. IL 61821 


81-960-2255 


2836 Osage Circle 


S0240 W. Pontiac Trail 


217/356-1884 




Waukegan, IL 60087 


Wtxom, MI 48393 




Virtual Reality Laboratories 


800/244-7241 


313/960-8751 


Millenium 


2341 Ganador Court 


708/244-4179 




Quern House 


San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 




Electronic Arts 


Mill Court 


805/545,8515 


Axiom Software 


1450 Fashion Island Blvd. 


Great Shelford 




1668 East Cliff Rd. 


San Mateo, CA 94404 


Cambridge 


Visual Inspirations 


Burnsville, MN 55337 


415/572-2787 


CB2 5LD 


809 W. Hollywood 


612/894-0596 




England 


Tampa, FI. 33004 




Elite Microcomputers 


22-384-4894 


813/935-6410 


Black Bell Systems 


138' Turner St. 






398 Johnson Rd. 


Port Reading, NJ 07064 


Mindscape 


Willow Mixed Media 


Glasgow. MT 59230 


9118/541-4214 


Priority House 


PO Box 194 


406/367-5513 




Charles Ave. 


Clenford. NY 12433 


800/ IK-AMIGA 


Expert Services 


Mailings Park 


914/657-2914 ■ 




7559 Mall Rd. 


Burgess 1 lil! 




Canon 


Florence, XY 41042 


West Sussex 




2995 Redlull Ave. 


606/371-9690 


Rl 1 1 5 9PQ 




Costa Mesa, CA 92628 




England 




800/848-4123 


Fargo Electronics 


44-424-6333 




714/438-9317 


7901 Flying Cloud Drive 






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Eden Prairie, MN 55:144 


MewTek 




CBP 


8011/327-4622 


1 200 Executive Drive 




1833 Verdugo Vista Drive 




Topeka, KS 66615 




Glendale, CA91208 


CMR Productions 


913/354-1146 




818/240-9845 


3835 Richmond Ave.. 


800/843-8934 






Centaur Development 


Suite 138 
Siaien Island, NY 10312 


Oregon Research 


AW, Shucks! 




PO Box 3959 


718/967-1509 


16200 S,W. Pacific Hwy.. 


In the March "94 issue we 




Torrance, CA 90503 
310/787-4530 


Great Valley Products 


Suite 162 
Tigard, OR 97224 


neglected to publish 






657 Clark Ave. 


503/620-4919 


contact information for 




Codemasters Limited 


King of Prussia. PA 19406 




SeaScape Software, 




Lower Farm House 


215/337-8770 


ParaVision 


developer of the game Jet 
Strike we reviewed that 




Stoneythorpe 
Southam 


Haitex Resources 


1251 American Pkwy. 
Richardson. TX 75081 




Warwickshire 


PO Box 20609 


214/644-0043 


month. SeaScape's address 




CV33 ODL 


Charleston, SC 29413 




is I06A-2621 Portage Ave, 




England 


803/852-0750 


Persped ive Software 


Winnipeg, Man. R3J 01*7, 




92-681-4132 


Hewlett-Packard 


PO Box 40191 
Redford, Ml 48240 


Canada; phone is 204/889- 




Commodore Business Machines 


16399 W. Bernardo Drive 


313/537-6168 


3357. 




1200 Wilson Drive 


San Diego, CA 92127 




More recently, our April 




West Chester, PA 19380 


619/487-4100 


Prime Image 


issue listed an incorrect 




215/431-9100 
800/662-6442 


800/752-0900 
Impressions Software 


19943 Via Escuela 
Saratoga, CA 95070 
408/867-6519 


telephone number for 
Oregon Research. The 




Creative Computers 


7 Melrose Drive 




correct number is 503/620- 





4453 Redondo Beach Blvd. 
Lawndale, CA 90260 
310/542-2292 



Kramingham, CT 06032 
203/676-9002 

Interplay Productions 
17922 Fitch Ave. 
Irvine, CA 92714 

714/553-6655 



SAS Institute 
SAS Campus Drive 
Cary.SC 27513 
919/677-8000 



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WB141A8CD: Amiga Verse Search Th& 
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Bum on all Amigas wi|fi TMQ of RAM and 2 drives. 
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Newest Disks / 

WBi42; JCGraph A beautiful grapnc pac^^ge. pie charts. 
3D charts o' an types. enpons EPS. iff j 0*3*200$ icirnaa' 
WBl4l: Big Dummies Guide to the rmernet An interactive 
Amiga Guide to the infoimation highway and now to tap ir 
WB14Q: Mr Backup A pawertul hard-dnve badcic ." ..'.-■ 
full tape-drive supppn. Formai-y cc-mimereiai' Pea WB?+ 
WB139: MIDI Performance Manager UhMy id manage a 
MIDI synthesiser ard other MIDI equipment Requires WB 2*. 
WB133: 3.0 Ei-!n» #2 ■■ Af-clfer d 5-; cn«.kwj 'lU C( uU'WS TO 
unleash the power ol Workbench 3.0 and AG A" 
WB137: The ARexx Guide - Full AmgaGmde (inc.; dccumanl 
to teach yog ARbsxIH Tip-fi'lpd with easy x- referencing' 
WB136: Terminus - W92.0-- ModernTerm.nai program, full 
featured: sa ptsscreenrrwes-overscan etc 
VVB13S: 3.0 Extras #1 ■ 13+ utilities lor WB 3 Several must- 
haves fur salting the most out el your new graphics modes' 
FDtM: Searched Tank* - ccmpMety updated antf compatiole 
w?th AG.A1.D' 60 diftereit ways lo E-ow each other away 1 An 
outstanding game ol angles, trniuclories & unique arsonaisl 
FDtM: MagaBsll AGA - This is thn one you we been waiting 
tot' Updated to knock your socks of I THE best pd came for 
in u Amiga Raq 5 WB2. A 1MB RAM. Show off thai AGA" 
FD92: Bias I em ■ cor.unr, Searched Tanks- a lank b.i::lii with 
fuiu'ist-c weapons-defenses 4 'e/MT graphics. Gaiaciod to a 
Gataxiarv5pace Invaders game completely Amiga-ined. 
FDBl: Popeye - A cone of the original C~&» dass^ -Amiga 
style with enhanced graphics Requires 1 MB chip RAM for 
PAL mode 

FDtM: Conquest 1 Dominion - Conquer the known wo/id and 
maintain comimpn over it--a microcosm ot pconnmic. survival. 
FD89; Kaiile Kumquet • A iho-rougMy entertaining and cttah 
eng ng rnaifr aflveitjro game Gioa: souncirao* aid njrapn- 
CJ Req'S 1MB Clip RAM |toi PAL mode] 
FDSB: AmyBoulderdatri - a dona ot he original r.i.v.'.c. 
en'unieiy *ai done coirpiete win luvei. editor, 2 wmoiete sets 
ot i«v*s and a le^ei MJitor Requires Workbench 2*. 
FD&T: OXYD- A comirifr'tal cuaMy game-sanria* lo MaWe 
Madness in nany ways, oui a.lows two compulefs to link & play 
together... see how many ol tne 200 'araJscapeS you gan com- 
plete WTthout having lo gal the hirfl book' 
FD&G: UChami: The stronges: playing Chess program avail- 
able iQ-r he Amiga period Req GB03D.+. Wcuknench?*, 4MB 
RAM c more. 5wppoH3 AGA (req SMS 1 ! 
DD97: Devtlopfr Comans ihe official Cflmmodore WMelop- 
e-rs k is '-Of the Am^aGuO-j ana Commodore inswf U(lil-es...a 
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Fun Disks/ 



FD6: GAMES! - 7ms 0iS« <s cnock full of games inducing; 
Checkers. C9ue. Gold - A rew sJfdo ine pieces puule. Jeopard 
■ An enhanced veraiun ot Risk. RuSftHuur ■ Su'p^^S1^g^y add'C;- 
ing. and SpaceWai ■ Beit described as a cvqss ^etwoen 
Comtiat-Tainks and asteroids. 

FD7: Pacman ■ Th-s tJrSk cgmain; Several pacirfln type 
gamei including; PucWane?. MazeMan and Zon« 
FD10: HackLll* ■ Aojnn#on adventure game Contflercd a 
ri L. SI -Have Chry.-i. fins is I'lf 2nd n« un&e d! [Mr", gam (Vtia: 
graphit irllertate Play time several weeks I 
FD1 1 . Las Vega> and Card Gimai ■ Las Vegas Craos - The 
besl Las Vegas Craps simulation every written for aiy com- 
sulor. Contains extensive HELP feature;. Also Tnirty- 
3~py eeePp'ser and rr.cre 

FDt ZAB: Siar Trek. The Game - Thrs is by far me besl Star 
Trek game *vw wntten loi any computer, ii features mouse 
coniroi. good graphics, diflil zed sound eltsjcls and great game- 
play. Counts as 2 disks. Heo. 1Mb and twa d-ives lor hd) 
fD!3r Board Gomel k",^; Mc-:co» D:~ ' :-'.. 

DDB3: IBM - Not one. but TWO IBM eroulaiors that wnl 
aiitjw rh* running a! US-DOS lortwona »w Aqsfga prtj- 
.^ir«f oompieie miffs pfegigms to Utm rO^r ArnigA 
9gppy ctovK irio TKK IBM cofnoantrtft i*iyes. Also. &»*(*. 
our oyr PC-Task erbuiatoi o,n odr OevW?r« Video pagel 
FD17: Educational Gemes - Th^s ask Indudes several gawes 
for youngster rKijdiig geography, main, soence, and word 
gsmus also 'i ides Whwul ol Fortirne 

F020. tactical Games - LUechForce: A game thai simulates 
combat between two or more gant robots Smple wcrcs can't 
begm to grve you the feel ol piloting a 30 40 !npr t.hi. Rnj 
Qreaihmg, eann ihakjng coi^-iUi hat obeys youf every whim 
FD27: Arcade Games ■ Tns dJJk it loaced With some great 
games irtduthK. Haceorema a gr eai racng car oame wrm ten 
ditereni caur&es. Mm=Blasi a helreopiai gunship iyj» ec-ne. 
Siark in the same dass as fiogger. .ar*a SBruakout ihe ariatnal 
breakout with more. 

FD3t; Game*! - Ar TraH-C Control - a good ATC sirraiition, 
S~ack Jack Leo - a lua feature set o! card games. ChessTei - 
play cness with your tnend in distant nnd remole places wilh 
■"■:■ rj.-irr-iH art] ,i n-oOem "aoyr n!h ■ a we^l done te>t adventure 
game {like an jnfocom game|. and MouseTrap • a 3d mi;« 
gama. 

FD32: Flight Simulator An insiiiumem ;imy!,iior tor a DdO 
FD33: Arcade Games Fheddy a Mano Bromers type ol 
game. Gerbls a target practice game, PipeLme a German 
ntefpretanon ol Ptpe Dreams, Tron a l^ghi cycles version, and 



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WB105AB: Workbench 2+ Extras #2 

This se* contemn tie pfograms :iai si-ojci have been 
tnclutMd with WE?' These powerful utiines lake full 
advantage oT he many new capab^iimft 'hat are avaiiadre 
In Workbench 2. Induces. Tool Uamigjy a wanoerfui 
Utilfty W add prog/ami 10 yeur TOOL -rr„ Vrrut 

Piotecrlon - Degraaer. Icon - Enhances Wd'koencfj 
"Show An* to display over 40 OfStinci .cdi& idi oit'etent 
types of ttes, &rmao Fen! Ethtor. Screen Banners - am 
iracials and sptineis and (warmirtg bees 1 Requester 
Enhancers and CPUBii! Twc disk s«I. counts as 



FD39A&8- Star Trek. The Naw GenerahOn '■ t lj c3T- 
pteteiy rlheran: v&fS'Cn ot Star Tre* ttor Vm lawnoon rD'2 
This one was createO by the Gktrman ,1,'ij' Tobas 
Eacelient 11 ! Counls as Iwo *6ks RyQu'es 51 2k 
FO50: Subrrurmf Game • Sealance 0"e j"0 a " i ' . 
tt:e makmj. this it an outstanding tuunw -• i I ;.i AjVM 
Commercial qja^f. highly rocommendeo 
FD57; Arcade Games • induces 2 Huy commerc i i j.i 1 I . 
games VegaBal 1 . an; Arxa.nckes.<sn game featuies 5 musical 
scores anc accscng ga-nepi.ty Gra*-ly Attec« s a BSfGhadef- 
Tic trip Ihrougti several dlterenl warips— eacn OiHerertL 
FD59: Game Potpourri - Xt-nar- ill in u ttrnOSl ^iJct done of 
tfw commercal game o! the same naT& a c-wat shootemup. 
Croisworc will take lists cl words a. aurgmai ctty generate 
word-soarcfi puzf'ei lor any EpWfl cornpai b e pnnler 
FD&O: Games - In Mebuia race av*' a 3c .%3"d to destroy 
enemy insralt9Hon$ lmerr«ron a »'#ar 0- M.ir c. clone 
Enigma; is n a game or pvrzW* 

FD&l : Game* Soiiia*e; great graphics o aft "wo veriront, 
Ktide: an imeiesting prece of eye candy E^e-ns Violence; 3 
player kilor be felled game VATC A rt*eotone»effl Attcal 
tntellroervce. Genesis; create reaflBM 22 '^a^ta WdridJ 
FDE2: PomPom Gunner. An eiTiem.' <, stcg: 1 - .mc wel' cone 
Wohd War II gunner SbmitaeOn Req 1 menace of memory, 
FD67; Arcade - includes Llamafon a wei -oo n e Rcboiren' 
done. Hate is a 'ter^c' Zai>oi don* mth n u itrpie 
facets.- worlds and snootn di^gO-.i ScrOHmg ..a 1 01 
FD69: UindGamit Had WtSUfifl -' inoot-tfll up games * 
ReSa* and let tn»ii 21 cu™. r ~i- - ■ . '• -.i ' 

your wnH 

FD73: Arcade Series - inlruOei Akrt' ,s a MULTllevel 
"Bereeih" ctone, Features sx-ooi** gaTeway grea: craohics 4 
fi^r tired sound 1 ■ 

FD7-1: Arcade Series - RmavVar e i/i D„ier Urets' clone 
with vector zed graphics. MomerLgce is a Lone Runner* 
clone veh 50 levels 1 In BfizTwfcfc tier f e COiwig ait you fwm 
.i d-ec .- ■ - -.'■ ■--. ..--'-,■" 

survive' 

FD75: Arcade Series - Descender is a done ol me classic 
arcade game "Tempest'; complete MtVi ueaowed graphics 
Tarn is the ciasue bat: e ol (riflClBWII "."c ntrin between 
twu tanks— incr»o=b*y well done 1 Seven n a maie game 
unhkp ftn/ o'p-er— .ne.'udeo is a level ec;or too fTimi requires 
i meg en p memory -Fat Agnjsi 

F077: Arcade Series - Gaiaga"&2 is a dona 94 ma arcaoe 
game with several garnepiay ennancements-wvih smoouatn. 
sharp gratMitcs. It's better than the urgn-a' 1 Pharaohs Curse is 
a don* of the onffnal CM classic O-plomacy is a baM '. , 
corrrpulenjed verS'On ot tfe Avaion M I bca-o qa^e- -conquer 
or be conqu&redi 

The AmigaWorld "Best-Of" Set 

FDB5ABCD: AmtgaWonWe Beat - These foul disks con- 
tain | he nqfiwrp-ttgameiot'^i Include* Mothaf Loria-. 
Maria, Minefc'aiq, Pptng. Intruder Alert. Delude PacMan. 
Rocky tt& Super Anfle«y (see Dec '92 Arn^vYoridi Four 
015* set. counts as three . 
FDBl: SupwGamos Someo: fneoeit g.i~«s- Do^ey Kong 

and Tra 'B a;er .t>- [jctri taslcaEt-O UCaAB B*ttNI Mad 
Borrtje' s the class c game ol "ktiDccni" raogflfl n i" 1 an Amiga 
lla-ris All o! it«se nam^s art taci ■ 

FDB2; Intrepid m it« Ardc cir joueontn* ,i -,r» on i nw- 
soi to rescue hcs!ages in this iupe-TJ y cretieo Amga onnmal 
FDB4: Gamea! Deluxe PacMan is ouiror man '■"'• crgmai- 
20- mazes, special "powerups" wlIIi DuSfftTomo graphics 
TntnkAmania & tie csass-c 5.1-- :■ --■■ 

fully drawn H.Res L-naOBS 

Workbench Disks j 

WB-1:Tel*cqmmu nidation ■ I"vf r ; - T'^; -.'-,-■& &■[»■■ 
litn: pc tmn/i;.r n- ^-cc-.-i-. \.z- " -." - ■ ' M s 
Hanosnake 2.t2a See aso WBio? i WBH5 

WB5: Form at- 35 t [mas ;■ ' : * g -■; u n-!) are r.ve 
PageStieam lonts and SnowFor; s J cr; r ■$ ,, y program 
YVBB: Fonts #2 ShowFont aHowi »d„ m q V 'Ckly and 
pamtessly view a'l 25fi CharacK-rs n a llpKl 'C' ,, irvduOes 
large Am.gaDoi iystem tontl tmany ^0 10 56pta| 
WB7: Clip Art • This cs* b loaded wm piac* arxi white dip 
an, Art includes, trees, watches, too's US ana State rnap* 
and more 

WH9: Icon* - Tfjiy a muibtuCe - 

A*so incijoes rCOnMi*sler.. iconLao. and others great utsnan to 
help goneiate icons 

WB12: Ditk Ulillties Th-s q--Mi cSsJi H leaded win wqnderivi 
uMites tor eve^thvng indudffig making duk I3&e". I ■ . r 1 
tog,ng. dak opt -muring, ask and tAj njcower, arcn. ¥ # and 0*0*- 
mime*, ana ail sons ol Uta manipulaton A must navui 
lrVQ13AB: Printer Drivers ifid Genetaior over 70 dilfereni 



dHvaa lingtuOing HP LaserJet 3 \ £>). also memoes n printer- 
driirer nerwtlQT, Twod'sk sel counts as two 
WB1S; Dualnesa - this disk contains a tpraadsnoet. a 
database, a profectt me management program and financial 

■rafyets (stocks). 

WB13: Word Te*t Piccessori ■ This Disk eW Baina the best 
eOUors. Includes. TejnPlu& 'v2_2e) a tuD (ealured: word proces- 
sor. Dme^vl 35j aq<G& programmers edior with strong macro 
features, TenEDfvSo) an enhanced Emacs type editor, and a 
speii checker. 

WB22; Fonts «3 - S«^*eral more great Ionia. These, like the 
Othei toni Oisks work great with Ppaim and WYSIWYG woid 

piOCeSSDIS 

W823: Giephics and Plotling - Plot a 3-D naiwimaneai 
turcl on potior Can pot any user perinea runcbon. BeiSunt? • 
produce awesome pciures 01 objects one could turn on a 
Jathe.CanHlsomaplFF Image TiiesOrilO any surface trtfllil can 
draw Now compatible wth most 3D packages and VScreen - 
makes a vrj^al screen anywtiera 

WBS5: Educational ■ On Utto c sk are two programs trial can 
generate mapf; of pifHering types., World Data Base uses I he 
CIA's data base ip oafsmtB delated maps ol any entered user 
gicoai coord na:es A:sp Paiatio* a great dem^nstTation ot 
Alton Emsiem General Theory ol Relauvity 
VVB2?: Nagel - 26 Patrick Nagoi plctutes ol beaunlul women. 
WB33:Clrcul( Beard Design ■ several terrilc routine* tor the 
■ ■■ ";■ :.-■■' .■:-.-.'.-l indUd Itg PCSsM .1 ■■ 'v- - H <.: tJteeJTJ 
tool, LogicLab - circul 10 gw lesier. and Mcao i 2d) a well 
done new rolease ot livs PD CAD program, now comes With 
predrawn common crcuit components lor inserlien into 
srr.eTatics 

W835: 3D Graphics ■ This dsk contains 3Fonts - Ful vector 
font set lor use with 35 programs, FpniMaker • make 3d lonls 
from arty system font. vtake3DShaoe - create 3d shapes from 
any image Dump'olFF - create 3d anrmatioris preserves pat 
let. Woridld - a demo ol a Iront end tor use with DKBPander 
WB3G: Graphics - On this disk are several programs to create 
{tunning graphical images including, MPath - creates swirtmg 
galajiy images, Reset - produce an unbmtted numoer ot varia- 
tions ot images that a symmetrically similar to a rose, S'mGen • 
display those spectacUar images as pan d your workbench, 
and RayShaOe - a very good rayttaang program, create your 
own beautiful 3d graphic models with this one' 
WB37: Educational - Equca.nanal games and puzzles that 
cover math, geography. tpaHrlQ, and books. Ages S - 15 
V/E33: Ptolling and Graphic* P'-ody u a powertul twil tea- 
Iukkj plotii-ig package Useo by many col-eges anB unrvers'- 
lies. Highly recommended. Plans - a jncfodibly well done 
Computer Aided Drafting program, very lu' ; l featured. 
') ■ ■■ r::- 1 r.-in- 1' ' '■•-"' ".:;• - 

recursive M C. Ecshar type pictures. 

WB41: Music MED an incredlDly well done, lull leatured 
muio edito'. Creaie yo-jr own stunning mus^c ffirectly on your 
[fie Anuga. S-nwar 10 SoundTracker pjt BOCer, Very powerful 
Basy to use program Version 3. 20- compatible win WB2-t. 
WB43: Business - TNt disk contains Analy[;Ca!c ■ piobably 
the most powerful spreadsheet prog-am on the Arrvga A fa I 
featured spreadsheet with many leaturss eipected in a com- 
mercial package* Req 12 VB 



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W&46: Clip Arl - H.ghfles CI p art with tno to-IOwing moti'S - 
embellish munll (borders. Oodada ,.- .). people. & uanspO nation. 
WB47: Clip Arl ■ Hires C ip art. Motifs - hair, pralting, summer. 
animals and mactood 

WB43: Clip Art - H res cp am Mx.ls - Ho Hjays, mus>c. med-- 
cai, and' misc. 

IVB50: Animation • Seven otihe best eun>S!y!e animeilon? or 
"Demos", including - scientific <*5 1 . subway, sunnd* tvstdc- 
mo, rnngrit. waves, and woow. 

WB53: Graphics ■ Raytratng programs gonorate absolutely 
stunning realistic looking planes, rockets, buildings . , and sur- 
real Images C-Lkjhl n the most powerful EASY-TO-USE of 
itfl kind we hMwa seen 15 date This .$ easi.y bene', ana more 
full featureO. ihan simiiat commercial programs costing in tne 
ftundrebs of dottars. Also. sMovie - a 1u'i ieatureo video text 
titter similar to ProVideo, Boaccast Tmer Great video 
HRBBng, wipes, soecai elects, ana mote... 
WB54: Pnnling ■ This risk contains several routines lo help 
win the chore ot printing Includes Gothic - Finally a Banner 
pnnter for Hie PDI PrmtSiJoSo -a wed .imptsmented at-purpose 
printer -utility wim a very comfortable graphic interlace and 
m,in/ advanced leaturt>s, Lila ■ wilh ease, print ASCI' Me* 10 a 
PpstScnpi printer, and mo^e. 

WB55: Application - JtCopyl'll - a full 'ealured disk coper. 
make backup! o! copy protected disks FloaoRouta - find the 
quickest route trom one eny 10 another, highway description 
included Dary - a Oary program »*e "Dougy Houser M D". Ca' 
- a calendar program. Magn-an - a database ta :ored tor arti- 
cles and pub Italians. 

WB57: Animelion - Tlvs disk has several "Demo" style ani- 
mal^ons. Including. Blilter. Lolly. Sun5. vertigo, vortex, and 
• ' ■; •■■;—- 

WBS2: Midi Ulillties ■ Severer usfltyl m-pi utilities including. 
programs lo trnnsier to and from sevetai music programs to 
nuck. a mkja tyaec harxper. a micti recoroer wiin tmeoase. <M* 
pay midi into, file sequence player, and a tew leant, 
WB63; Diek Utilities #3 Several highly lecommended pro- 
grams ID aid in removing duplicate tiles Irom your hard drive, 
performing f 'e backups. Binary editing, last lormatting, file 
recovery, arsd laroed C sk vacation ot corrupt cisks. 
WB66: Icons MS- Let s of neat icons Also, several wonderful 
programs that 10 let you create your own icons, modify and 
manruuiate icons and into STUctures. 

WB69; Music • 90 flinutM of dasscas and: modem e'eclronic 
tuS>C lor you Amiga. 

WB75: Music - o^er 100 Instruments files t msi| &rvd sample 
sound t es ( as I 

WB79: Home k Business Accounting - Includes Ckbacct - 
thn most complete cneckoook accounting piogram going. 
LCDCac - tnis well Done calculator has a very large Display 
ano operates irom tne keyboard at mouse. M/eage master - 
monitor your automobile mileage with this mileage log, 
Grammar - a grammar checker, and Woridlime - f^nd m! what 
! n« : ;s .n ua to 50 global c:f&s. 

V«B1T9ABCDE: FoniSat This CoOecbC^ contara over 1 00 
typefaces tor use mm Ptotestioruil PngePageSertsr 3 . or 
PBDeStteam 2.1*. TheM hntt win output to any Ut^et pnm- 
e* ur dot-main* printer with no Jaggies, tnnntcs to OUtltne 
torm. V»n/ prr^topiuflQ irfUJ it * 

wnat: Gre.11 ApplicaHuni J.i'.il ; .r ., ■,■■:. - . 

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very luS leatux-d data bain program including lull prmter contrd 
lor :idd'f ss labels and mail merge applications Also includes. 
TypeTu a good typing tutor. RLC a tj I teatured label pyinw. 
Banner, a multi-tont banner msket. and Budget a home 
accounting in a program H-rjhly recommended. 

WB82: Anlmetlons ■ Four full length, wet I done "movie" style 
ammatons. Including. Coyote. Juggierli. GnostPooi. 4 
Mecnarjji. 2 Disks, counts as 1. 

WB93: Wotkbench 1.3 Extras *2 Ccntatns the utilities ttia: 
Comn«coie Should have shipped with the Amiga; VirusX4,0. 
Snap. FuDrsk iiecflver corrupt oeieted si«l. Disk Optimizer 
[fioppy i hardj, Mathlll [screen Wafwer. hot»ey. mowse accel 
macro, clock utility). GOMF (a guiudusteijand PnniSludio 
WB95: Checkbook Accountant 3.1 ■ Del r.t..ry commetCLal 
grade, we've seen many checkbook programs and in s is tne 
best Full budgoting, transaction recording 5, report generation 
W696: Duper* - Contains Xcopylll & Nib which will backup 
copy -pro tecteo programs, FreeCopy removes copy prolecton 
from se'/eta: programs, anc SuperDuper w.(l crank-out last 
AnvgaDDS copies 

WB99: LHestyles - [deludes AGenn— family tree program that 
tracks uo to 600 people marriages etc. Landscape is a CAD 
program to create gardens landscapes Loom simulates an 8 
harness loom; expenmenl wrlh pattern design wilh instant toed' 
back. 

WB102: Telecommunications • Contains the programs 
NComm £Q and: VTtOO -28B 2mcdem prdOcOrt. XPfl JH«0- 
COl luopan. full VTtOO emulation NComms script language is 
SO powerful i| Can create a lull-lealured BBS system. 
YVB106: Home Manager ■ This is a great all-in-one address 
book win an autod-aJef ^ notepad to-do iisi'apwin:meri scned- 
ulei'home inventory database ard phone number all J ef . 
WB tOB: OclaMED - This bieakthrpugh program Doubles your 
Amiga'i sound capab : if es I: cm 4 channels lo an ear-popc-ng 
& channel; 1 All the renound erfrbng capabiMiei ol MED plus 4 
more channels! If you thought your Amiga sounded good 
belong, you aim heard nuihln' yet 1 

trVBlotJ: VerseWlte Dsptay. search and print The New 
Testament. 

W911 3: Sid II ■ Why pay ■!□ bucks for a directory utility, wnen 
this one will do 1! all plus much morel A trufy pro leSSl&nal- cal- 
iber program Sd 1 was our best now co-moVelery rewritten. 
Sid 2 will astound: you. 

WB114: Fonts Mi ■ Contains 36 bitmap system lonls. 
IrVBfIS: Telecommunication ■ If ycu have AmigaDOS2.04f 
and a modem, then th s is THE program far you Term tOiaUy 
cor-arms to the Llser Inteilace Style Guide lor 2.04, has an 
ARe*K port, and supports all popular file-transfer piatocols 
through XPR libraries We wish ail programs were rms good 
WB116: Database* - This s wnat you've been wamng ion 
Conta-his S uniquely specialized database programs lor track- 
ing Videotapes. CD's Magazine A-1ides, Comic Books and 
Tradng Cards' 

wai3u: Grinder - a complete graphics conversion package 
that supports GIFs. JPeg. Neochrame. Degas, PCX, Targa, 
TIFr, HAM-Eand IFF format pictures An invaluable tool loi all 
desktop videograohers and Desktop pub'ishers. 

warn: toavBipmm-YovtMiQ,*' *m*m 

tutoria tot tne beghner on uirng me Arwgi 

.i--l 1" a- ■ -,a', ■: .v 'i ■■■.:, :■. ■ -l„3'. ! . ■ 1, CLI :■■ ' 

and b*i potnts- in between Sn 

color icons to 'ftpacs evwy icon in your SJh Workbench 
WB121: ProPageS 4 Enhancer- This risk contains over 40 
"Gen tjs" "2: jSb *n FraPage 2-. -..:»c "■- .j ,-•'.. cnes ka 
WaKe Pie ~nan ar.o n5?-7i-- Te*t :c ' : 2:i :c -.ami- a ■** A iz 
mciuoes STUctured & bitmap dipan for unique borrJers...a must 
have lor at PPage 3 users, 

WB122: System Optimizer - KCo-nmodnly enhances your 
sysiam. gives memory meters, mo use/key board enhance- 
Ten:::, enme nmeirc p'js many Dthi.-'s ..too numerous lo lisl' 
REorg wil qpumize hard and noppy anshs lor a big spaed 
increase HOMem will atlow yow to use up » 2 mags, of hard- 
dnve space to' virtual memory 1 [Req &8D2 n « w MMUi AH 
programs lequne 2.0+, 

WB123AB: Flag* of trie World same as WBt2^. but for 
Workber.cn t.3 Req. 1MB 2 disk set. counts as two. 
WB124: Flogs ol the World - Two rfodes: clck and learn or 
a came to test your knowledge. G'eal graphics--tanlaslic 
learning teol Has curren: Russia A Yugoslavia republics. 
Reg. Woncoencn J.Ct A tMB BAM 

W8127: Blanker* • Over 20 diflerent screen bankers. Most 
run on Workbench 1.3+ ...a few reQuire 2.0+ 
WB12B: ColcrFonts - contains 12 color biiirap fonts for use 
with DPaint o> any software that supports Coorfonts 
WB129: Super Virus Killer - From Sa'e Ha* Infl, who caia- 
logs ana hits Amga Vnuses Hflrfdiwde-a complete virus sys- 
tem that knows a ii Am^a viruses .updated often Reg WB2ir 
WB130: TooiManger 2 The t'tn-al* 150i rransger tor your 
Workoesicn. Add an.maiec icons, sound effects and 'nocks' ol 
programs to your WB.very useful! Req 2.0+ and bard drive 
WB131: Magic Workbench - Make your 2.04- Workbench 
sim* with style with these B-cotor Dithered icons Easy auto- 
instatrs in minutes. Req s WB? 04. and hard drive. 
W0132; Canon Studio Ver»Jon 2 - Special printer 
Preferences editor and drivers for BJC 600. BOO A BSD, L0P 
A1, A2, BJC BOO. BJ 5. 10. 20. 200. 230. 300. 130 
WB133: Panasonic Studio Special printer Preferences OOi- 
tor and dnve' sysiem lor all Panasonic 9 & 24-pin primers 
WB134: 3.Q AGA Blanker Bu3a"tfc-t 3 -,v33C --t-J- 
lerent bianker.s 10 real y show o!f your AGA ntach.r.el 

Dev Disks , 

DD54 Compression - The bestf-ie comp-ession programs 
and aids lot the Amiga Includes Arc. Lharc, ihwarp. phax, 
PoweiPacker a must have by all.. Zip. Warp, and Zoo 
DD71 AB: C Compiler - This disk coriams DICE. Matlhew 
D«i Ion's lull leaiured, powerfal C compltr £ environment. 2 
ai5k3,cour.isas2 

DD79abcd: Amiga "C" Tulorlal - 1- ■% 15 tie most com 
prafiens.ve C languaoe-^nrroa oriefrred-sei ot tutorials avfel- 
a.cie. induces lull working examples, source code and an 
incredible set ol lessons. Inciuded are lull discussions and 
example] (Of Amiga prcc-amming. 4 disk se; P counts as 3. 
DDB6- The Prpgrarrime* ■ Includes GadToots ana REQToots 
Which will a lew you to Create your user mlertaces and then the 
program w>ii automatically generate *C* source code Or 
Assembly -code. Ruquires. and wntes code tor AmigaD052> 
0069: UEdH - P-obab'y tne most powerful teit editor tor trie 
Amiga Previously commercial, now public domain. 1 MB. 
DDS1 : Parflench ■ A'lows you to easily conned- network two 
Amigas/CDTVs together and snare storage Devices Req's 
custom eab'e foocs to ma'« cable mduded-eaSy) 
DD90; Advanced Utilities CompressDisk doubles the 
capacty ot your rtaid-arive on the fy wrir. compression ' !! Also 
contains: disk optimrjer, SCSI mounl utlity, Keymap edicts. 
Enforcer, Undelete: 3 more Mosl programs require 2.0* 

Video Disks/ 

V09: Imaging - Induced 0*1 this disk are the ind>spens>ble 
unties. Rend24, ViewTek and tne JPEG utilities. Reno"24 is 
Invaluable tcfSi-bfi Animators allowing lor provinws on AGA 
and non-AGA Amiges ViewTek plays back arums ol all sorls 
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THE LAST WORD 

Kudos, complaints, comments, concerns, and contributions from our readers. 



For/Against Games 

February's "Editor's Drawer" revealed 
what I have suspected for quite some 
time: Amiga owners primarily use their 
machines to play games. AmigaWorld 
should focus on its real {and neglected) 
market: gamers. Granted, most of us 
would welcome Microsoft Word or a 
new WordPerfect for the Amiga. It ain't 
going to happen, Iblks. .And while it is 
obvious that the Amiga's video prowess 
far outstrips the competition, the time is 
ripe for AmigaWorld to pay more atten- 
tion to its bread-and-butter customers, 
Paul Thurrott 
Scottsdale, Arizona 

The Amiga, by the nature of its users 
and its strengths and weaknesses, is not 
going to take the same path as the PC. 
If CD32 helps get the Amiga name 
into buyers' heads, then I'm all for it. 
The Amiga can be marketed as both a 
video/multimedia creator's system and 
a home entertainment system without 
confusing buyers. Money from CD 
sales can go toward development of 
ever-more advanced Amigas. 

Another overlooked use of the CD 3 2 
svstem is as a kiosk information system. 
For about $700, including the cost of 
the MPEG cartridge, you could build 
the start of a kiosk system like nothing 
on the market. Once again, CBM has 
given buyers state-of-the-art hardware 
at economy prices. 

Zoltan Hunt 
Downsview, Onia Ho 

As a 13-year-old .Amiga user, I'm 
offended by the principle of video 
game systems. Who would spend 
SI 39.95 on a game system and S70 to 
S85 per game? Not me! Not all 
teenagers are stuck on Nimendos. 
Since I was 5 years old (and a C-64 
user), I've been loyal to Commodore. 

Nathan Jones 
Shirley, Massachusetts 

I couldn't find any place that actually 
had the CD32 in stock, so how is 
Commodore supposed to compete with 



kings like Sega and Nintendo? They 
have no arcade hits and nothing out- 
standing compared to the 16-bit Sega 
CD. The system could be dead before 
it's released. Too bad, because (hey 
had a chance. 

George Bain 
Sell u macher, On la rio 



Get Back in Business 

Where is the coverage on business 
programs, music, and the many other 
aspects of computers? True, the Amiga 
is at the top of the hill as far as video is 
concerned, but the Amiga is fully 
capable of more. People see the Amiga 
as just a video tool, something like a 



A good magazine changes 

pace with the market it is 

covering, and AW seems to 

be doing just that. 



VCR. If we expect to attract some of 
the Mac and IBM users, AmigaWorld 
has to be a lot more diversified in its 
computer coverage. 

Horace Gilchrist, Jr. 
North Baldwin. New York 



Net Update 

1 wish to correct some errors and omis- 
sions in your article "Cruisiif the Inter- 
net" (Jan. '94, p. 65). 

1. The Internet is not based on 
Unix. All modern computers can hook 
up to die Internet. To connect your 
Amiga directly to a local area network, 
vou'll need a networking card and the 
proper software to handle a TCP/IP 



connection (see "Net Gains," Mar. '94, p. 
33). Freely distributable software is 
available to connect to the Internet via 
modem, without a networking card. 

2. When downloading a file via FTP, 
you should not type "get filename.lzh": 
litis can result in a corrupt archive. You 
may need to set your terminal software 
to "binary" mode first [on non-Unix 
systems]; consul! vour documentation. 

3. FTP site amiga.physik.uni/.h.ch 
shut down months ago. In the US, use 
the following FTP sites: ftp.wustl.euu, 
fip.cdrom.com. and Itp.etsu.edu. 
Switch to the directory "/pub/am inet." 
Other sites, such as ftp.hawaii.edu, 
cany the Fred Fish library. 

Dan Zerkte 
Davis, California 

Thanks for the update, Dan. {Dan is the 
moderator nj the Usenet neirsgruup 
camp. sys.a miga.a nnou nee, and encou rages 
readers to mail Amiga-related news to 
a nnou nce(<i es. u cdm 'is.edu . ) — Eds. 

Your "Cruisin' (he Internet'' article was 
simple and basic (which the intimidat- 
ing Internet is not), but covered much 
information thai Amiga owners need to 
get started. I especially liked Cindy 
Field's and Tim Walsh's information 
on Amiga-specific files. 

I invite all Amiga owners to inundate 
[he Internet with impressive program- 
ming, graphics, animations, sound and 
music files, as well as news and views to 
force Mac, DOS, and Unix users to use 
Amiga resources. 

Rick Rttdge 
MUwaukie, Oregon 



Improvement Noted 

Your last two issues of AmigaWorld ([an. 
& Feb.) have been your best two yet, 
with substantial improvements in both. 
A good magazine changes pace with 
the market it is covering, and A W 
seems to be doing just dial. 

Todd Putnam 
Travis A FB, California U 



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